USS Commodore Hull (1862)

USS Commodore Hull (1862)


For other ships of the same name, see USS Hull.

USS Commodore Hull
Career (US)
Name: USS Commodore Hull
Namesake: Commodore Isaac Hull
Ordered: as Nuestra Senora de Regla
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: in 1860 at New York
Acquired: 1 September 1862
Commissioned: 27 November 1862
Decommissioned: 8 June 1865 at the New York Navy Yard
Struck: 1865 (est.)
Fate: sold, 27 September 1865
General characteristics
Type: Gunboat
Displacement: 376 long tons (382 t)
Length: 141 ft (43 m)
Beam: 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m)
Draft: 9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion: Steam engine
side-wheel propelled
Speed: 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement: Unknown
Armament: 2 × 30-pounder rifles, 4 × 24-pounder smoothbore guns

USS Commodore Hull (1862) was a ferryboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

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