USS Spuyten Duyvil

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History
United States
Name	USS Spuyten Duyvil
Ordered	1 June 1864
Builder	Samuel M. Pook
Launched	September 1864
Out of service	1866
Fate	Sold, 1880
General characteristics
Type	Torpedo boat
Displacement	207 long tons (210 t)
Length	84 ft 2 in (25.65 m)
Beam	20 ft 8 in (6.30 m)
Draft	7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Propulsion	Screw steamer
Speed	5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph)
Complement	23 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 × spar torpedo
Armor	Pilothouse: 12 in (300 mm) Hull: 5 in (130 mm) Deck: 3 in (76 mm)

During the American Civil War, the Union Navy suffered heavy losses from the explosion of Confederate torpedoes. This experience prompted the Union Navy to design and build vessels capable of using this new weapon. One effort along this line resulted in a screw steam torpedo boat originally called Stromboli, but later called Spuyten Duyvil, after the Spuyten Duyvil area in New York City.