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USS Susquehanna

Built By: New York Naval Yard

Sailed: 1847

Commissioned: December 24, 1850

Decommissioned: January 14, 1868

 

Characteristics

Type: Steam Frigate

Displacement: 2,450 tons

Length: 257 feet

Beam: 45 feet

Draft: 20 feet 6 inches

Propulsion: Steam Engine

Armament

2 15-pounder Parrott rifles

12 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns

1 12-pounder rifle

 

Battles

Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Hatteras Inlet Batteries

Port Royal

Sewell's Point - May 8, 1862

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

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