History | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Cherokee Tribe |
Laid down | 1859 |
Acquired | 1864 |
Commissioned | April 1864 |
Decommissioned | 1865 |
Renamed | Ancud |
Fate | Wrecked 1889 |
Chile | |
Name | Ancud |
Namesake | Ship Ancud (1843) |
Operator | Chilean Navy |
Commissioned | 1865 |
Decommissioned | 1878 |
Fate | Sunk near Chiloé, on 25 August 1889 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 606 ton |
Length | 194.5 ft (59.3 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
Speed | 13 kt |
Complement | 92 |
Armour | 2 × 20-pdr. r., 4 × 24-pdr. sb. |
The USS Cherokee was a 606-ton screw steam gunboat in the US Navy during the American Civil War ship. The ship later served in the Chilean Navy.