&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USSSassacus.jpg) USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, 5 May 1864
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| History | |
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| Launched | 23 December 1862 |
| Commissioned | 5 October 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 13 May 1865 |
| Fate | Sold 28 August 1868 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sassacus-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 974 tons |
| Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h; 16.7 mph) |
| Complement | 145 officers and men |
| Armament | 2 100 pounder Parrott rifles, 4 9" Dahlgren smoothbore cannons, 2 24 pounder howitzers, 1 12 pounder rifled cannon, 1 heavy 12 pounder smoothbore cannon |
The first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, sidewheel steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1863 to 1865. She saw service in the American Civil War.