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USS Seneca
USS Seneca
USS Seneca
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USS Seneca
Builder: J. Simonson
Laid Down: Unknown
Launched: 27 August 1861
Commissioned: 14 October 1861
Decommissioned: 24 June 1865
Stricken: 1868
Fate: Sold, 10 September 1868
Characteristics
Type: Unadilla-class gunboat
Displacement: 691 tons
Tons burthen: 507
Length: 158 ft
Beam: 28 ft
Draft: 9 ft 6 in.
Depth of Hold: 12 ft
Propulsion: 2 x 200 IHP 30-in bore by 18 in stroke horizontal back-acting engines; single screw
Sail plan: Two-masted schooner
Armament
1 x 11-in Dahlgren smoothbore
2 x 24-pounder smoothbore
2 x 20-pounder Parrott Rifle
Battles
South Atlantic Blockade Squadron
Port Royal
Fort Wagner
North Atlantic Blockade Squadron
Fort Fisher
Fort Anderson
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