Kinsman and other Union ships engage the Confederate gunboat CSS J. A. Cotton on 14 January 1863
History
United States
Ordered
as Gray Cloud
Laid down
date unknown
Launched
1854
Acquired
1 January 1863
Stricken
1863 (est.)
Fate
Sunk 23 February 1863
General characteristics
Displacement
245 tons
Length
not known
Beam
not known
Draft
4 feet (1.2 m)[1]
Propulsion
steam engine
side wheel-propelled
Speed
not known
Complement
not known
Armament
not known
USS Kinsman, sometimes called USS Colonel Kinsman, was a sidewheel steamer captured by the Union Army during the American Civil War. She was used by the Army and then by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. On 23 February 1863, she hit a snag and sank.
^Gaines, W. Craig (2008). Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks. LSU Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780807134245. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
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