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USS Lackawanna

Builder: New York Navy Yard

Launched: 9 August 1862

Commissioned: 8 January 1863

Decommissioned: 20 July 1865

Recommissioned: 7 May 1866

Decommissioned: 10 February 1871

Recommissioned: 8 May 1872

Decommissioned: 7 April 1885

Fate: Sold 30 July 1887

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Characteristics

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Type: Sloop-of-war

Displacement: 1,533 long tons

Length: 237 ft.

Beam: 38 ft. 2 in.

Draft: 16 ft. 3 in.

Propulsion: Steam engine, screw-propelled

Speed: 10.5 knots

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Armament

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2 x 11 in Dahlgren smoothbores

2 x 9 in Dahlgren smoothbores

1 x 150-pounder Parrott rifled gun

1 x 50-pounder Dahlgren rifled gun

2 x 24-pounder howitzers

2 x 12-pounder howitzers

2 x 12-pounder rifled guns

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Battles

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West Gulf Blockading Squadron

Mobile Bay

Fort Morgan

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