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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