USS Richmond

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USS Richmond at Baton Rouge, 1863

Builder: Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmith Virgina

Launched: 26 January 1860

Commissioned: 1860

Stricken: June 1919

Fate: Sold, 23 July 1919

Characteristics

Displacement: 2,604 Tons

Length: 225 ft.

Beam: 42.6 ft.

Draft: 17.45 ft.

Propulsion: Steam

Speed: 9 Knots

Armament

1 x 80-pounder Dahlgren smoothbore gun

20 x 9-in Dahlgren smoothborre guns

1 x 30-pounder Parrott rifle

Battles

Service in Caribbean

Mississippi River Blockade

Capture of New Orleans

Vicksburg

Port Hudson

Mobile Bay