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USS Brooklyn

USS Brooklyn

USS Brooklyn
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USS Brooklyn
Builder: Jacob A. Westervelt and Son
Laid Down: 1857
Launched: 1858
Commissioned: January 26, 1859
Decommissioned: May 14, 1889
Stricken: January 6, 1890
Fate: Sold March 25, 1891
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Characteristics
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Class and Type: Brooklyn
Displacement: 2,532 tons
Length: 233 ft. (at the waterline)
Beam: 443 ft.
Draft: 16 ft. 3 in.
Propulsion: Steam engine screw-propelled as well as ship-rig sail
Speed: 11.5 knots
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Armament
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one 10-inch smoothbore gun
twenty 9-inch smoothbore guns
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Battles
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Fort Jackson
Fort St. Philip
Vicksburg
Mobile Bay
Fort Fisher
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