 USS Southfield, sinking after a battle with CSS Albemarle
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| History | |
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| Name | USS Southfield |
| Builder | John English, Brooklyn |
| Launched | 1857 |
| Commissioned | December 1861 |
| Decommissioned | April 1864 |
| Fate | Sunk by CSS Albemarle, 19 April 1864 |
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| Type | Sidewheel gunboat |
| Displacement | 750 long tons (762 t) |
| Length | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 61 officers and men |
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USS Southfield was a double-ended, sidewheel steam gunboat of the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was sunk in action against the Confederate ironclad ram CSS Albemarle during the Battle of Plymouth (1864).
Southfield was built in 1857 at Brooklyn, New York by John English, and served as a ferry between South Ferry, New York, and St. George, Staten Island, until she was purchased by the U.S. Navy at New York City on December 16, 1861 from the New York Ferry Company. She was commissioned late in December 1861, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Charles F. W. Behm in command.