History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Norfolk Packet |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | date unknown |
Acquired | 10 September 1861 |
Commissioned | 7 February 1862 |
Decommissioned | 12 July 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Homeport | Port Royal, South Carolina |
Fate | Sold, 10 August 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 349 |
Length | 108 ft (33 m) |
Beam | 28 ft 2 in (8.59 m) |
Propulsion | schooner sail |
Speed | not known |
Complement | 40 |
Armament |
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USS Norfolk Packet was a large schooner purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was assigned to gunboat duty in the inland waterways of the Confederate States of America.