History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Corwin |
Launched | 1849 |
Acquired | September 1861 |
In service | 1861 |
Out of service | 1865 |
Fate | Returned to the U.S. Treasury Department after the war’s end |
General characteristics | |
Type | Gunboat |
Displacement | 330 long tons (340 t) |
Length | 125 ft (38 m) |
Draft | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
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USS Corwin was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.