USS Ascutney
| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 4 April 1863 |
| Acquired: | June 1863 |
| Commissioned: | 28 July 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 September 1864 |
| In service: | 19 October 1865 |
| Out of service: | 1 August 1868 |
| Struck: | 1868 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 28 October 1868 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 974 tons |
| Length: | 205 ft (62 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Propulsion: | steam engine side wheel-propelled |
| Speed: | not known |
| Complement: | 102 |
| Armament: | two 100-pounder rifles four 9” smoothbores guns two 24-pounder howitzers two 12-pounder howitzers |
USS Ascutney (1862) was a large steamer with powerful guns 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 blockade of Confederate waterways. Post-war she performed some steamship service for the Navy.
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