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USS Seneca

USS Seneca

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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

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Characteristics

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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

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Armament

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1 x 11-in Dahlgren smoothbore

2 x 24-pounder smoothbore

2 x 20-pounder Parrott Rifle

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Battles

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South Atlantic Blockade Squadron

Port Royal

Fort Wagner

North Atlantic Blockade Squadron

Fort Fisher

Fort Anderson

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