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USS Yantic

USS Yantic

Namesake: Yantic River, CT

Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard

Launched: 19 March 1864

Commissioned: 12 August 1864

Reclassified: IX-32, 15 May 1921

Stricken: 9 May 1930

Fate: Sunk, 22 October 1929

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Characteristics

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Type: Gunboat

Displacement: 836 long tons

Length: 179 ft.

Beam: 30 ft.

Draft: 13 ft 9 in.

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Armament

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1 x 100-pounder Parrott rifle

1 x 30-pounder rifle

2 x 9 in. smoothbore Dahlgren guns

2 x 24-pounder howitzers

1 x 12-pounder guns

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Battles

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Pursuit of the CSS Tallahassee

North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

1st Battle of Fort Fisher

2nd Battle of Fort Fisher

Capture of Fort Anderson, NC

South American Waters

Asiatic Fleet

South American Waters

WWI - Training Ship

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