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Wash drawing of USS Quaker City (1861–1865) by Clary Ray, circa 1900.
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Quaker City |
Namesake | A former name retained. |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 1854 |
Acquired | 25 April 1861 |
Commissioned | 14 December 1861 at New York City |
Decommissioned | 18 May 1865 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Fate | Sold, 20 June 1865 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Notes | Continued to serve American commerce until 1869 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steamship |
Displacement | 1,428 long tons (1,451 t) (burden) |
Length | 244 ft 8 in (74.57 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 0 in (10.97 m) |
Draft | 13 ft 8 in (4.17 m) |
Depth of hold | 29 ft 0.5 in (8.852 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine, side wheel-propelled |
Speed | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
Complement | 163 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 × 20-pounder Parrott rifle, 8 × 32-pounder guns |
USS Quaker City was a heavy, 1,428 long tons (1,451 t) sidewheel steamship leased by the Union Navy at the start of the American Civil War. She was subsequently purchased by the navy, outfitted with a powerful 20-pounder long rifle, and assigned to help enforce the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America.[1]