&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Scourge_1846.png) SS Bangor, USS Scourge
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | SS Bangor |
| Ordered | Bangor Steam Navigation Co. |
| Builder | Betts, Harlan, and Hollingsworth |
| Launched | 29 May 1845 |
| Fate | Sold to U.S. Government on 30 December 1846 |
| History | |
 United States | |
| Name | USS Scourge |
| Acquired | 30 December 1846 |
| Commissioned | 1846 |
| Decommissioned | 1848 |
| Fate | Sold to revolutionaries of Venezuela on 7 October 1848 and seized by State of Venezuela in 1848 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 231 long tons (235 t) |
| Length | 120 ft (37 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 10.5 knots (19.4 km/h; 12.1 mph) |
| Complement | 50 officers and enlisted |
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USS Scourge was a steamer warship in service during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). She was the third United States Navy ship of that name.