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USS Peoria (I)

Sassacus Class Gunboat:

Laid down, date unknown, as a wooden-hulled, sidewheel, "double-ended" gunboat at New York Navy Yard ; Machinery by Aetna Iron Works, New York, N.Y., cost $305,199.73

Launched, 29 October 1863

Commissioned, USS Peoria, 26 December 1866, CDR. Oscar C. Badger, USN in command.

Assigned to the North Atlantic station, USS Peoria got underway from New York, 6 January 1867. for shakedown along the southeast coast. Returning to Hampton Roads, VA., 12 March.

Peoria departed Hampton Roads 14 April for the West Indies. Touching at the Virgin Islands, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Leeward Islands, she then turned north to Hampton Roads before dropping anchor at Portsmouth, N.H. 28 July 1867

Decommissioned, 5 September 1867, at Portsmouth, N.H.

Sold 26 August 1868, to R.C. Flanning for $6,900

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 974 t.
Length 235'6"
Beam 35'
Depth of Hull 12'
Draft 9'3"
Speed unknown
Complement 137

Armament

four 8" Dahlgren smoothbores

two 60-pdr Parrott rifles

two 24-pdr Dahlgren howitzers

Propulsion

one inclined, direct-actin, surface condenser steam engine; cylinder diameter 58" stroke 8'9"

two vertical tubular boiler4s

two sidewheels

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
098635505	85k	Generic lithograph representing the Sassacus-class gunboats. Wikipedia		John Spivey

Peoria (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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