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USS Kansas (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Kansas Class Gunboat:

Built in 1863 at Philadelphia Navy Yard (machinery taken from prize steamer Princess Royal)

Launched, 29 September 1863

Commissioned USS Kansas, 21 December 1863, at Philadelphia, PA., LCDR. Pendleton G. Watmough in command

Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, at Wilmington, N.C. in March 1864

Participated in the engagement with the Confederate ironclad-ram CSS Raleigh, 6 May 1864

Captured British blockade runner SS Tristram Shandy, 15 May 1864

Forced blockade runner Stormy Petrel ashore, 7 December 1864, where she was destroyed by a gale

Participated in the attacks on Fort Fisher in December 1864 and January 1865

Reassigned to the James River in February 1865 to support General Grant's drive to Richmond

Decommissioned, 4 May 1865, at Philadelphia Navy Yard

Recommissioned, 28 July 1865, LCDR Clark H. Wells in command

Assigned to four year deployment encompassing the South Atlantic Ocean region

Decommissioned, 22 September 1869, at Washington Navy Yard

Recommissioned, 26 September 1870, LCDR. Norman H. Farquhar in command

Assigned to the Tehuantepec surveying-expedition to determine the feasibility of constructing an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec which separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Pacific Ocean

USS Kansas was assigned to various additional surveying duties in 1872 and 1873

Participated in the show of force at Cuba in November 1873 as a result of the Virginius affair

Decommissioned, 10 August 1875, at Portsmouth, N.H.

Sold, 27 September 1883, at Rockland, ME. to CAPT. Israel L. Snow

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 625 t.
Length 129' 6"
Beam 29'
Depth unknown
Draft 10' 6"
Speed 12 kts
Complement 108
Armament

one 150-pdr rifle

two 12-pdr rifles

two 20-pdr Dahlgren rifles

two 9" Dahlgren smoothbores

Propulsion steam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
098665601	351k	"Capture of Blockade Runner *Annie* October 31, 1864.-Sketch by Charles F. Ellmore." From left to right: USS Howquah; USS Alabama launch; USS Wilderness; USS Nipon; blockade runner *Annie; USS Kansas; USS Alabama*. Flickr - State Archives of North Carolina	John Spivey
	129k	USS Kansas on the James River, circa February-April 1865. Note her white smokestack, and three officers seated on shore. Collections of the Library of Congress US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # LC-B8171-2691	Bill Gonyo
098634102	149k	CDR. Charles L. Huntington, USN served in the Civil War and was attached to USS Kansas in 1866 at the time of ship's four-year voyage in the South Atlantic. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # 48978	Robert Hurst

USS Kansas (I)
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