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USS Wyalusing coming to the aid of USS Otsego and USS Bazely on the Roanoke River, 9 December 1864
History
Name
USS Wyalusing
Builder
William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number
113
Launched
12 May 1863
Commissioned
8 February 1864
Decommissioned
10 June 1865
Fate
Sold, 15 October 1867
General characteristics
Class and type
Sassacus-class gunboat
Displacement
1,173 long tons (1,192 t)
Length
205 ft (62 m)
Beam
35 ft (11 m)
Draft
9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion
Steam engine
Speed
14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement
154 officers and men
Armament
2 × 100-pounder Parrott rifles
4 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun
4 × 24-pounder howitzers
2 × 9-pounder rifled gun
2 × heavy 12-pounder smoothbore guns
USS Wyalusing was a double-ended, side-wheel gunboat that served in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the borough of Wyalusing in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.[1]
Wyalusing was built at Philadelphia by C. H. & W. H. Cramp, launched on 12 May 1863, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 8 February 1864, with Lieutenant Commander Walter W. Queen in command.
^"Wyalusing". Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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the USSWyalusing. He participated in a plan to destroy the rebel ram CSS Albemarle in the Roanoke River, May 25, 1864. He was one of five Wyalusing crew...
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Charles H. Baldwin (Medal of Honor) (1839–1911), American sailor on the USSWyalusing Charles Sears Baldwin (1867–1935), American scholar and professor of...
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expedition. On 9 December, an expedition, which included the gunboat USSWyalusing, moved farther up the Roanoke to capture Rainbow Bluff and a Confederate...
take the fort. Before the troops arrived, Admiral David D. Porter sent USSWyalusing and two escort ships on an expedition to try to capture Rainbow Bluff...
ending June 30, 1907". Harvard University. Retrieved 5 September 2019. "Wyalusing". Hunting New England Shipwrecks. Retrieved 26 February 2021. Department...
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