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USS Signal

USS Signal, tinclad, circa 1863-1864

Built: Wheeling, Virginia

(now West Virginia)

Purchased: 22 September 1862

Launched: 1862

In Service: 22 October 1862

Fate: Burned 5 May 1864

Characteristics

Displacement: 190 tons

Length: 157 ft.

Beam: 30 ft.

Draft: 1 ft. 10 in.

Depth of Hold: 4 ft. 4 in.

Propulsion: Steam engine

Stern wheel-propelled

Armament

2 x 30-pounder Parrott rifles

4 x 24-pounder howitzers

2 x 12-pounder Dahlgren guns

Battles

Vicksburg

Yazoo River Expidetion

Fort Hindman

Red River Campaign

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