USS Memphis (1862)

USS Memphis
History
United Kingdom
Name	Memphis
Owner	Denny & Begbie
Builder	William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland
Launched	April 3, 1862
Homeport	London
Identification	United Kingdom Official Number 44836
Fate	Captured, July 31, 1862
United States
Name	USS Memphis
Acquired	by capture July 31, 1862 Purchased, September 4, 1862
Commissioned	October 4, 1862
Decommissioned	May 6, 1867
Fate	Sold, May 8, 1869
United States
Name	Mississippi
Owner	William Weld & Co (1869 – c. 1875) Frederick Baker (c.1875–1879) H. Hastings & Co. (1879–1881) Edward Lawrence (1881–1882) Oregon Improvement Co. (1882–1883)
Acquired	May 8, 1869
Homeport	Boston, Massachusetts (1869–1879) New York (1879–1881) Portland, Oregon (1881–1883)
Fate	Destroyed by fire, May 13, 1883
General characteristics
Type	Screw steamer
Tonnage	1,091 GRT, 791 NRT
Length	239 ft (72.8 m)
Beam	30 ft 2 in (9.2 m)
Depth	19 ft (5.8 m)
Installed power	2-cylinder Steam engine, 200nhp
Propulsion	Single screw propeller
Speed	11.5 kn (21.3 km/h)
Armament	7 × guns

The second USS Memphis was a 7-gun screw steamer, built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1861, which briefly served as a Confederate blockade runner before being captured and taken into the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was destroyed by fire in 1883.