USS Carrabasset (1864)
History | |
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United States | |
Acquired | 23 January 1864 |
Commissioned | 12 May 1864 |
Decommissioned | 25 July 1865 |
Fate | Sold, 12 August 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 202 tons |
Length | 155 ft (47 m) |
Beam | 31 ft 7 in (9.63 m) |
Draft | 4 ft 7 in (1.40 m) |
Propulsion |
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Complement | 45 |
Armament |
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USS Carrabasset was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
She supported the blockade of the Confederate States of America in a variety of ways: as a tugboat, a gunboat, and as a transport, depending on the need at the time.
Service history
Carrabasset, a side-wheel steamer, was purchased at
On 17 June 1865, one of her landing party expeditions penetrated to St. Martinville, Louisiana, where the equipment of three lighthouses, stored there since the taking of the lighthouses by the Confederates early in the war, was recaptured. Carrabasset was decommissioned 25 July 1865 at New Orleans, and sold there 12 August 1865.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.