&sq=&lang=&file=File:U.S.S._Lenapee.png) Sassacus-class gunboat
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Naval_jack_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931867).svg){kind=small}  United States | |
| Name | USS Osceola |
| Namesake | Osceola (1804-1838), a noted Seminole chief |
| Builder | Curtis and Tilden, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Launched | 29 May 1863 |
| Commissioned | 10 February 1864 |
| Recommissioned | 16 January 1867 |
| Decommissioned | 13 May 1865 |
| Fate | Sold 1 October 1867 |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Flag_of_Uruguay.svg){kind=small} Uruguay | |
| Name | Eliza |
| Owner | Flint & Hall |
| Cost | $22,000 |
| Fate | Abandoned adrift in the Atlantic 1868 |
| General characteristics as originally built | |
| Class and type | Sassacus-class gunboat |
| Tonnage | 974 |
| Length | 205 ft 0 in (62.48 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft 0 in (10.67 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 8.5 in (2.654 m) |
| Depth | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
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USS Osceola was a wooden, sidewheel Sassacus-class gunboat which saw combat with the Union Navy in the American Civil War. She was designed with shallow draft and double-ends specifically to allow her to operate in the narrow rivers and inlets along the Confederate coast. She was well suited to this role and took part in major battles on the James and Cape Fear Rivers.
After her military service she was converted to a four-masted schooner to carry lumber between St. John, New Brunswick, and Montevideo, Uruguay. She was unsuited to this role and was disabled and abandoned on her first sailing.