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USS Owasco

USS Owasco

Built By: Charles Mallory, Mystic, Connecticut

Sailed: October 5, 1861

Commissioned: January 22, 1862

Decommissioned: July 12, 1865

 

Characteristics

Type: Unadilla-class Gunboat

Displacement: 694 tons

Length: 158 feet

Beam: 28 feet

Draft: 9 feet 6 inches

Propulsion: Steam Engine with Sails

Armament

1 11-inch Dahlgren Smoothbore

2 24-pounder Smoothbore

2 20-pounder Parrott rifle

 

Battles

West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Forts St. Philip and Jackson

Capture of New Orleans

Vicksburg

Galveston

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