USS Yucca (1864)

USS Yucca (1864)


Career (US)
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: 1864
Acquired: 25 February 1865
Commissioned: 3 April 1865
Out of service: 1868
Struck: 1868 (est.)
Fate: sold, 26 August 1868
General characteristics
Displacement: 373 tons
Length: 145 ft 7 in (44.37 m)
Beam: 23 ft 7 in (7.19 m)
Depth of hold: 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Propulsion: steam engine
screw-propelled
Speed: not known
Complement: not known
Armament: one 30-pounder Parrott rifle
one 12-pounder smoothbore gun

USS Yucca (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy security of Confederate waterways.

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