USS Tuscarora
USS Tuscarora
Builder: Merrick & Sons, Philadelphia, PA
Laid Down: 27 June 1861
Launched: 24 August 1861
Commissioned: 5 December 1861
Decommissioned: 4 June 1864
Recommissioned: 3 October 1864
Decommissioned: 30 May 1865
Recommissioned: Later in 1865
Decommissioned: 10 February 1871
Recommissioned: 16 May 1872
Decommissioned: 14 September 1876
Recommissioned: 10 January 1878
Decommissioned: 31 May 1880
Stricken: 1883
Fate: Sold, 20 November 1883
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Characteristics
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Type: Mohican-class sloop-of-war
Displacement: 1, 457 long tons
Length: 198 ft. 6 in.
Beam 33 ft. 2 in.
Draft: 14 ft. 10 in.
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Armament
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2 x 11 in. Dahlgren smoothbore guns
2 x 32-pounder guns
4 x 57 cwt 32-pounder guns
1 x 30-pounder Parrott rifle
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Battles
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Sailed for England to capture of sink the CSS Nashville which was docked at Southampton. Was unable to pursue due to English law stating two belligerent vessels had to have 24 hours between leaving.
Sailed to Gibraltar where she docked for repairs.
June 23 - left Gibraltar for England to search for the CSS Alabama, but never found her.
March 1863 - returned to Philadelphia
Patrolled off Bermuda
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
1st Battle of Fort Fisher
2nd Battle of Fort Fisher
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
South Pacific Squadron
1872: Undertook oceanographic and Hydrographic surveys
Surveyed isthmus of Panama
Took soundings for submarine cable between U.S., Japan, and China
North Pacific Station
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