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USS Lodona

USS Lodona

United Kingdom

Builder: M. Samuelson & Co. Hull

Launched: 1862

Maiden Voyage: 25 May 1862

Stricken: 1865 (est)

Fate: Captured by Union Navy forces 4 August 1862

United States

Acquired: 20 September 1862

Commissioned: 5 January 1863

Decommissioned: 11 May 1865

Fate: Sold, 20 June 1865

Characteristics

Type: Iron-hulled cargo steamer

Naval gun boat (1863-1865)

Tonnage: 688 GRT

Displacement: 750 long tons

Length: 210 ft.

Beam: 27 ft 6 in.

Draft: 11 ft 6 in.

Depth of hold: 16 ft 6 in.

Propulsion: Steam Engine

Screw-propelled

Armament

1 x 100-pounder Parrott Rifle

1 x 30-pounder Parrott Rifle

1 x 9in Dahlgren Rifle

4 x 24-pounder guns

Battles

South Atlantic Blockade Squadron

Morris Island

Folly Island

Fort Wagner

Fort Sumter

Captured Schooner Arctic

Sapelo Sound, Georgia

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