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History
USS Sea Bird USS Sea BirdUnited States
Acquired12 July 1863
CommissionedJuly/August 1863
Decommissioned28 June 1865
Captured
  • by Union Navy forces,
  • 13 May 1863
FateSold, 28 June 1865
General characteristics
Displacement58 tons
Length59 ft 8 in (18.19 m)
Beam18 ft 4 in (5.59 m)
Draft6 ft 12 in (2.13 m)
Depth of hold7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Propulsionschooner sail
Complement15
Armamentone 12-pounder howitzer

USS Sea Bird was a captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War.

She was put into service as a gunboat by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

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