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USS Brooklyn

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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