For other ships with the same name, see USS Georgia.
History
United States
Name
USS State of Georgia
Builder
Vaughn & Lynn, Philadelphia
Launched
1851
Acquired
25 September 1861
Commissioned
20 November 1861
Decommissioned
10 September 1864
Recommissioned
5 January 1865
Decommissioned
9 September 1865
Stricken
1865 (est.)
Fate
Sold, 25 October 1865
General characteristics
Type
Side-wheel steamer
Displacement
1,204 long tons (1,223 t)
Length
200 ft (61 m)
Beam
33 ft (10 m)
Draft
14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth of hold
21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion
Steam engine
side wheels
Complement
113
Armament
6 × 8 in (200 mm) 55-cwt guns
2 × 32-pounder guns
1 × 30-pounder Parrott rifle
USS State of Georgia was a large steamer with powerful guns acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. State of Georgia, with her crew of 113 sailors and officers, was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in its blockade of Confederate waterways.
A side-wheel steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1851 by Vaughn & Lynn, the ship was purchased by the Union Navy at Philadelphia on 25 September 1861 from the Philadelphia and Savannah Steamship Co. It was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 November 1861, Commander James F. Armstrong in command.
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