Global InformationUSS Sarah Bruen information
| History | |
|---|---|
  United States | |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | date unknown |
| Acquired |
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| Commissioned |
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| Decommissioned |
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| Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate | Sold, 15 August 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 233 tons |
| Length | 105 ft 6 in (32.16 m) |
| Beam | 26 ft 7 in (8.10 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
| Depth of hold | 9 ft 1 in (2.77 m) |
| Propulsion | schooner sail |
| Speed | not known |
| Complement | 35 |
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USS Sarah Bruen was a wooden schooner acquired by the United States Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.
After being installed with a large (13") mortar, Sarah Bruen was used by the Union Navy, in its blockade of Confederate States of America ports and waterways, as a gunship whose main task was to bombard elevated targets which could not be reached by standard cannon or rifled guns.