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USQMD Suffolk

Sternwheel Packet:
  • Laid down in 1845 as the wooden steamer Niagara at French Creek (Clayton), New York, by John Oades
  • Launched in 1845
  • Operated by Ontario & St. Lawrence Steamboat Co. 1849-1859
  • Ontario Steamboat Co. 1859-1862
  • Purchased by the War Department, 16 July 1863
  • Commissioned USQMD Suffolk 1863
  • Final Disposition, sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, 7 October 1864
    Specifications:
    Displacement 473 t.
    Length 192'4"
    Beam 27'5"
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 9'4"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Passengers unknown
    Cargo Capacity unknown
    Propulsion
    boiler(s)
    one vertical beam R.H. Durham & Co., N.Y. steam engine, cylinder 49" x 11' stroke, wheels, 26' diameter
    one propeller
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