USS Sassacus
USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, 5 May 1864
Builder: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Launched: 23 December 1862
Commissioned: 5 October 1863
Decommissioned: 113 May 1865
Fate: Sold, 28 August 1868
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Characteristics
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Class & type: Sassacus-class gunboat
Displacement: 974 tons
Length: 205 ft.
Beam: 35 ft.
Draft: 9 ft.
Propulsion: Steam engine
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Armament
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2 x 100 pounder Parrott rifles
4 x 9 in Dahlgren smoothbore cannons
2 x 24 pounder howitzers
1 x 12 pounder rifled cannon
1 heavy 12-pounder smoothbore cannon
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Battles
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North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
5 May 1864: Struck the CSS Albemarle's starboard broadside
Duty on the James River
1st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
Battle of Fort Anderson
Battle of Fort Strong
Duty on the James River supporting Lieut. Gen. Grant
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