USS Berberry (1864)
| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Berberry |
| Ordered: | as Columbia |
| Laid down: | 1864 |
| Launched: | 1864 |
| Acquired: | 13 August 1864 |
| Commissioned: | 12 September 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 June 1865 |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 12 July 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Tugboat |
| Displacement: | 163 long tons (166 t) |
| Length: | 99 ft (30 m) |
| Beam: | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine, screw |
| Speed: | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement: | 35 |
| Armament: | 2 × heavy 12-pounder smoothbore guns, 2 × 24-pounder smoothbore guns |
USS Berberry (1864) was a steam-powered tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
On 13 August 1864 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Navy purchased Columbia, a wooden-hulled screw steamer built there earlier that year. The Navy renamed her Berberry, and she was placed in commission at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 12 September 1864, Acting Ensign Milton Griffith in command.
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