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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USS_Kansas_rev.jpg) USS Kansas on the James River, Virginia, circa February–April 1865. Note her white smokestack, and three officers seated on shore.
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| Namesake | the Kansas River |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Launched | 29 September 1863 |
| Commissioned | 21 December 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 10 August 1875 |
| Fate | Sold 27 September 1883 at Rockland, Maine |
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| Displacement | 625 tons |
| Length | 129 ft 6 in (39.47 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Propulsion | steam engine, screw propelled |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 108 |
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USS Kansas was a gunboat constructed for the Union Navy during the middle of the American Civil War. She was outfitted with heavy guns and assigned to the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America. She was the first U.S. Navy ship to be named Kansas and was the first of a class of 836-ton screw steam gunboats. At war's end, she continued serving her country by performing survey work and defending American interests in Cuba until sold in 1883.