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- Acquisition: Purchased from prize court, Key West: by Navy Department.
- Cost: $58,000.
- Description:
- Class: Side-wheel steamer.
- Rate, rig, etc.: 4th; brig.
- Tonnage: 585.
- Dimensions:
- Length, 211'
- Beam, 23' 6"
- Depth, 12'
- Draft: October 21, 1862, forward, 6', aft, 7'; November 29, 1864, 9' 3".
- Speed: Maximum, 12; average, 8.
- Engines: Two, oscillating. Diameter of cylinder, 52½''; stroke, 54".
- Boilers: Four.
- Battery: Original: Jun. 18, 1863, 2 20-pdr. Par. rifles, 4 24-pdr. S. B. Changes: Dec. 31, 1863, 2 20-pdr. Par. rifles, 1 12-pdr. rifle, 4 24-pdr. S. B.; Jun. 30, 1865, 2 20-pdr. Par. rifles, 4 24-pdr. S. B.
- Disposition: Sold at New York, November 30, 1865, to H. Allen, at public auction by Burdett, Jones & Co., for $21,000.
- Remarks: Was a blockade runner; captured July 7, 1862, in the Bahamas by U.S.S. Quaker City and U.S.S. Huntsville.
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