&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USS_Sagamore_1861b.jpg) USS Sciota (2nd ship from left)
| |
| History | |
|---|---|
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Naval_jack_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931867).svg){kind=small}  United States | |
| Name | USS Sciota |
| Builder | Jacob Birely (Philadelphia) |
| Cost | $96,000 |
| Launched | 15 Oct 1861 |
| Commissioned | 15 Dec 1861 |
| Fate | Struck mine and sank, 14 Apr 1865; salvaged; sold 25 Oct 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Unadilla-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 691 tons |
| Tons burthen | 507 |
| Length | 158 ft (48 m) (waterline) |
| Beam | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) (max.) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × 200 IHP 30-in bore by 18 in stroke horizontal back-acting engines; single screw |
| Sail plan | Two-masted schooner |
| Speed | 10 kn (11.5 mph) |
| Complement | 114 |
| Armament |
|
USS Sciota was a Unadilla-class gunboat built on behalf of the United States Navy for service during the Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat, with both a 20-pounder rifle for horizontal firing, and two howitzers for shore bombardment, and assigned to the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.