USS State of Georgia

History
United States
Name	USS State of Georgia
Builder	Vaughn & Lynn, Philadelphia
Launched	1851
Acquired	25 September 1861
Commissioned	20 November 1861
Decommissioned	10 September 1864
Recommissioned	5 January 1865
Decommissioned	9 September 1865
Stricken	1865 (est.)
Fate	Sold, 25 October 1865
General characteristics
Type	Side-wheel steamer
Displacement	1,204 long tons (1,223 t)
Length	200 ft (61 m)
Beam	33 ft (10 m)
Draft	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth of hold	21 ft (6.4 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine side wheels
Complement	113
Armament	6 × 8 in (200 mm) 55-cwt guns 2 × 32-pounder guns 1 × 30-pounder Parrott rifle

USS State of Georgia was a large steamer with powerful guns acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. State of Georgia, with her crew of 113 sailors and officers, was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in its blockade of Confederate waterways.

A side-wheel steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1851 by Vaughn & Lynn, the ship was purchased by the Union Navy at Philadelphia on 25 September 1861 from the Philadelphia and Savannah Steamship Co. It was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 November 1861, Commander James F. Armstrong in command.