USS Wyalusing

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USS Wyalusing coming to the aid of USS Otsego and USS Bazely on the Roanoke River, 9 December 1864
History
Name	USS Wyalusing
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	113
Launched	12 May 1863
Commissioned	8 February 1864
Decommissioned	10 June 1865
Fate	Sold, 15 October 1867
General characteristics
Class and type	Sassacus-class gunboat
Displacement	1,173 long tons (1,192 t)
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draft	9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement	154 officers and men
Armament	2 × 100-pounder Parrott rifles 4 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren gun 4 × 24-pounder howitzers 2 × 9-pounder rifled gun 2 × heavy 12-pounder smoothbore guns

USS Wyalusing was a double-ended, side-wheel gunboat that served in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for the borough of Wyalusing in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.^[1]

Wyalusing was built at Philadelphia by C. H. & W. H. Cramp, launched on 12 May 1863, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 8 February 1864, with Lieutenant Commander Walter W. Queen in command.