 USS Ceres
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Ceres |
| Launched | 1856 at Keyport, New Jersey |
| Acquired | 11 September 1861 |
| Commissioned | September 1861 at the Washington Navy Yard |
| Decommissioned | 14 July 1865 at New York City |
| Fate | Sold, 25 October 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steam gunboat |
| Displacement | 150 long tons (150 t) |
| Length | 108 ft 4 in (33.02 m) |
| Beam | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine, sidewheel-propelled |
| Speed | 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Complement | 45 |
| Armament | 1 × 30-pounder rifle, 1 × 32-pounder smoothbore gun |
USS Ceres was a small 150-long-ton (152 t) steamboat acquired by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.