Builder: Gaylord, Son and Co. St. Louis, Missouri

Laid Down: 1862

Launched: 10 February 1864

Commissioned: 14 May 1864

Decommissioned: 6 July 1865

Renamed: Samson 15 June 1869

Chickasaw 10 August 1869

Fate: Sold, 12 September 1874

Acquired: 12 September 1874

Renamed: September 1874

Renamed: Gouldsboro, 1880

Fate: Sold, 1940

Fate: Sank, 1950s

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Class and Type: Milwaukee-class monitor

Displacement: 1,300 long Tons

Tons Burthen: 970

Length: 229 ft.

Beam: 56 ft.

Draft: 6 ft.

Installed Power: 7 x Tubular Boilers

Propulsion: 4 x shafts

2 x Non-condensing steam engines

Speed: 9 knots

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