USS Peosta

USS Peosta photographed on the Western Rivers, during 1864-65. Note identification number "36" painted on her pilothouse.
History
United States
Name	USS Peosta
Completed	1857
Acquired	13 June 1863
Commissioned	2 October 1863
Decommissioned	7 August 1865
Fate	Sold, 17 August 1865
General characteristics
Type	steamboat
Tonnage	204 tons
Displacement	233 tons
Length	151 ft 2 in (46.08 m)
Beam	34 ft 3 in (10.44 m)
Draft	6 ft (1.8 m)
Depth of hold	5 ft 2 in (1.57 m)
Propulsion	steam engine, side-wheel propelled
Armament	3 × 30-pounder Parrott rifles 3 × 32-pounder rifled guns 2 × 12-pounder smoothbore guns 6 × 24-pounder howitzers

USS Peosta—also known as "Tinclad" # 36—was a steamboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Peosta was outfitted as an armed gunboat, with heavy guns for battles at sea, and large howitzers for shore bombardment. She served on the rivers and other waterways of the Confederate States of America enforcing the Union blockade on the South.