USS Shenandoah
Abeam view of Shenandoah between 1865 and 1869
Namesake: Shenandoah River
Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Launched: 8 December 1862
Commissioned: 20 June 1863
Decommissioned: 15 April 1865
Recommissioned: 20 November 1865
Decommissioned: 2 May 1869
Recommissioned: 15 August 1870
Decommissioned: 2 May 1870
Recommissioned: 8 September 1879
Decommissioned: 27 May 1882
Recommissioned: 5 November 1883
Decommissioned: 23 October 1886
Fate: Sold, 30 July 1887
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Characteristics
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Type: Screw sloop
Displacement: 1,375 long tons
Length: 225 ft.
Beam: 38 ft. 4 in.
Draft: 15 ft. 10 in.
Propulsion: Steam engine
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Armament
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1 x 150-pounder Parrott rifle
2 x 11-in Dahlgren smoothbore
1 x 30-pounder Parrott rifle
2 x 24-pounder rifled howitzer
2 x 12-pounder rifles
2 x heavy 12-pounder smoothbore howitzers
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Battles
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Searched for CSS Tacony
Searched for raider, Florida
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Fired heavily on blockade runner Lilian
1st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
Service in South America
Asiatic Squadron
European Station
South Atlantic Squadron
Pacific Squadron
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