&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:USS_Tacony_rev.jpg) USS Tacony (far left) attacking Plymouth, North Carolina
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Tacony |
| Namesake | A section of northeastern Philadelphia on the bank of the Delaware River |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Laid down | Date unknown |
| Launched | 7 May 1863 |
| Commissioned | 12 February 1864 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Decommissioned | 7 October 1867 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
| Stricken | 1868 (est.) |
| Fate | Sold, 26 August 1868 |
| Notes | Double ended ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sassacus-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 974 tons |
| Length | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine, side wheel-propelled |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement | 145 |
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USS Tacony was a double-ended, side-wheel steamboat acquired by the Union Navy during the third year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a heavy gunboat with powerful guns and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.