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USS Two Sisters USS Two SistersUnited States
Launched1856
Commissioned30 January 1863
Decommissioned1865
Captured
  • by Union forces
  • 21 September 1862
FateSold, 28 June 1865
General characteristics
Displacement54 tons
Propulsionsail
Armamentone 12-pounder gun

USS Two Sisters was a small 54-ton captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War.

Two Sisters was put into service as a gunboat and, when required, as a ship's tender, by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

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