USS Bloomer (1856)

USS Bloomer (1856)


Career (US)
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: 1856 at New Albany, Indiana
Acquired: 24 January 1863
Commissioned: 24 January 1863
Out of service: June 1865 (sank)
Struck: 1865 (est.)
Fate: sold, 22 September 1865
General characteristics
Displacement: 130 tons
Length: not known
Beam: not known
Draught: not known
Propulsion: steam engine
stern wheel-propelled
Speed: not known
Complement: 49
Armament: one 32-pounder gun
one 12-pounder rifled gun

USS Bloomer (1856) was a stern-wheel steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat with orders to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

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