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| History | |
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 United States Navy | |
| Name | USS Germantown |
| Namesake | Germantown, Pennsylvania |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Launched | 22 August 1846 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Lavinia Fanning Watson |
| Commissioned | 9 March 1847 |
| Decommissioned | 25 February 1848 |
| Recommissioned | 8 April 1848 |
| Decommissioned | 21 September 1850 |
| Recommissioned | 23 December 1850 |
| Decommissioned | 9 April 1853 |
| Recommissioned | 23 November 1853 |
| Decommissioned | 12 February 1857 |
| Recommissioned | 15 July 1857 |
| Decommissioned | 18 April 1860 |
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| Acquired | Recaptured May 1862 |
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 Confederate States Navy | |
| Name | CSS Germantown |
| Namesake | Previous name retained |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop-of-war |
| Displacement | 939 long tons (954 t) |
| Length | 150 ft (46 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 210 officers and enlisted |
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USS Germantown was a United States Navy sloop-of-war in commission for various periods between 1847 and 1860. She saw service in the Mexican–American War in 1847–1848 and during peacetime operated in the Caribbean, in the Atlantic Ocean off Africa and South America, and in East Asia. Scuttled at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, she was captured and refloated by the Confederate States of America and placed in service with the Confederate States Navy as the floating battery CSS Germantown before again being scuttled in 1862.