&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_Galena_(1880-1892).jpg) USS Galena dressed overall in the late 1880s.
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Galena |
| Namesake | Galena, cities in Kansas and Illinois, towns in Maryland and Missouri, and villages in Alaska and Ohio |
| Builder | Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia |
| Launched | 1879 |
| Commissioned | 26 August 1880 |
| Decommissioned | 23 July 1890 |
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| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1,900 tons |
| Length | 216 ft (66 m) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 6 in (5 m) |
| Speed | 9.5 knots (17.6 km/h; 10.9 mph) |
| Complement | 214 |
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USS Galena was a wooden armed steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1880 to 1890. She had an active career in which she operated in the North Atlantic Squadron and South Atlantic Squadron, seeing duty in the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Sea, along the east coast of South America, in the Caribbean, in the waters of Canada, and along the United States East Coast and United States Gulf Coast.
Galena was named for cities in Kansas and Illinois, towns in Maryland and Missouri, and villages in Alaska and Ohio, all of which in turn were named for galena, a native lead sulfide and the chief ore of lead. She was the second U.S. Navy ship to bear the name.