&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Wateree_(1863).jpg) Beached at Arica, 430 yards beyond the usual high water mark, after she was deposited there by a tsunami on 13 August 1868.
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| History | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Naval_jack_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931867).svg){kind=small}  United States | |
| Name | USS Wateree |
| Builder | Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania |
| Launched | 12 August 1863 |
| Commissioned | 20 January 1864 |
| Fate | Sold, 21 November 1868 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sassacus-class gunboat |
| Displacement | 1173 tons |
| Length | 240 ft (73 m) |
| Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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| Notes | [1] |
The first USS Wateree was a sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
Wateree was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, by Reaney, Son & Archbold; launched on 12 August 1863; and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 January 1864, Comdr. F. E. Murray in command.[1]
- ^ a b Thompson, Paul B. (1983). "The High and Dry Wateree". Proceedings. 109 (8). United States Naval Institute: 72B–D.