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History
USS WildernessUnited States
NameUSS Wilderness
Laid down1864
Acquired30 May 1864
Commissioned20 July 1864
Decommissioned10 June 1865
FateTransferred to Treasury Department, 6 September 1865
USS WildernessUnited States
NameUSRC Wilderness
Acquired6 September 1865
CommissionedNovember 1865
DecommissionedApril 1891
RenamedUSRC John A. Dix, 11 June 1873
FateSold, 18 May 1891
General characteristics
TypeSide-wheel steamer
Displacement390 tons
Length137 ft (42 m)
Beam25 ft (7.6 m)
Draft6 ft (1.8 m)
PropulsionSteam engine
Speed13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Armament4 × 24-pounder guns

USS Wilderness was a wooden-hulled, side-wheel steamship in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. After the war, she served as a revenue cutter. In 1873, she was renamed John A. Dix for former Secretary of the Treasury John Adams Dix.

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