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USS Smith-Briggs
Sketch of USS Smith Briggs
Sketch of USS Smith Briggs
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Sketch of the USS Smith Briggs Gunboat
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Built By: Schuyler Steam Towing Company
Sailed:
May 3, 1862
Commissioned: March 1863
Fate: Grounded and Destroyed
February 1, 1864
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Characteristics
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Type: Hudson River Tugboat
Displacement: 237 tons
Length: 135 feet
Beam: 28 feet
Draft: 4 feet
Propulsion: 1 x Maginnis Steam Engine -- Side Paddle Wheels
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Armament
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1 x 32-pound Parrott rifle
1 x 42-pound banded rifle gun
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Battles
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Siege of Suffolk
Patrolled the York, Rappahannock, Nansemond and James Rivers
Battle of Smithfield - run aground and later destroyed a few years later
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