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USS Signal
USS Signal
USS Signal
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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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