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USS Ossipee

USS Ossipee

Builder: Portsmith Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine

Laid Down: June 1861

Launched: 16 November 1861

Commissioned: 6 November 1862

Decommissioned: 3 July 1865

Recommissioned: 27 October 1866

Decommissioned: 30 November 1872

Recommissioned: 10 October 1873

Decommissioned: 25 May 1878

Recommissioned: 28 January 1884

Decommissioned: 12 November 1889

Fate: Sold, 25 March 1891

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Characteristics

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Type: Screw Sloop-of-War

Displacement: 1,240 long tons

Length: 207 ft.

Beam: 38 ft.

Draft: 16 ft.

Depth of Hold: 16 ft. 10 in.

Propulsion: Steam Engine

Speed: 10 Knots​

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Armament

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1 x 100-pounder Parrott rifle

1 x 11-inch smoothbore Dahlgren gun

3 x 30-pounder Dahlgren rifles

6 x 32-pounder guns

1 x heavy 12-pounder smoothbore gun

1 x 12-pounder rifle

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Battles

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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Mobile Bay

Blockade Duty off the Coast of Texas

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