USS Conemaugh (1862)
.jpg) USS Conemaugh
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| Name | USS Conemaugh |
| Namesake | Conemaugh River in Pennsylvania |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | 1 May 1862 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
| Commissioned | 16 July 1862 |
| Decommissioned | 27 July 1867 |
| Stricken | 1867 (est.) |
| Fate | Sold on 1 October 1867 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 955 long tons (970 t) |
| Length | 233 ft 9 in (71.25 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft 10 in (10.62 m) |
| Draught | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
| Complement | 125 |
| Armament | 1 × 100-pounder rifle, 1 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore gun, 6 × 24-pounder smoothbore guns, 1 × 12-pounder smoothbore gun |
USS Conemaugh was a side-wheel steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. With her large crew of 125 and her powerful guns, she was assigned as a gunboat on the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.
Launched in Maine in 1862
Originally named Cinemaugh, she was renamed on 24 December 1861, launched on 1 May 1862 by
Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine; and commissioned on 16 July 1862, Lieutenant
Reed Werden in command.
Civil War service
Assigned to the South Atlantic blockade
Conemaugh sailed from Portsmouth on 19 July 1862, and arrived at
Philadelphia Navy Yard
on 19 September and was placed out of commission four days later for overhaul.
Assigned to the West Gulf blockade
Clearing
West Gulf Blockading Squadron. She carried stores and ordnance to the ships off Mobile, Alabama. She captured the blockade runner Judson on 30 April and sent her into Ship Island
with her valuable cargo of cotton and turpentine.
With
Dauphin Island on 3 August and participated in the celebrated Battle of Mobile Bay
on 5 August. She sailed from Key West on 5 November for overhaul at Philadelphia.
Reassigned to the South Atlantic blockade
From 20 May-22 November 1865, Conemaugh cruised the coast of
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She lay at Norfolk, Virginia from 25 November 1865 – 27 May 1866, then was assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron
.
Post-war decommissioning
Conemaugh cruised on the coast of the Carolinas and
New York Navy Yard
where she was decommissioned on 27 July and sold on 1 October.
See also
References
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.