USS Ino
| Career (United States) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USS Ino |
| Owner: | 1851: Sifkin & Ironside (New York) 1859: Goddard & Thompson (Boston) 1861: U.S. Navy 1867: Samuel G. Reed & Co. (Boston) 1867: Rosenfeld & Birmingham (SF) |
| Builder: | Perrine, Patterson & Stack (NY) |
| Launched: | 4 Jan 1851 |
| Christened: | Ino |
| Acquired: | (by Navy): 30 Aug 1861 for $40,000, by John M. Forbes & Co. |
| Commissioned: | 23 Sep 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 Feb 1867 |
| Renamed: | USS Ino (1861) Shooting Star (1867) |
| Career (Finland) | Finland |
| Renamed: | Ellen |
| Notes: | Recorded in Barcelona as Finnish barque Ellen of Vasa, under Captain Dahlstrom, in 1886 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Extreme clipper |
| Tonnage: | 895 tons OM, 673 tons NM |
| Displacement: | 895 tons |
| Length: | 160 ft 6 in (48.92 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft 11 in (10.64 m) |
| Draught: | 17 ft 5 in (5.31 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship, 9491 1/3 square yards of sail area; converted to barque, sometime after 1867 |
| Speed: | 14 knots |
| Complement: | 144 |
| Armament: | Eight 32-pounder guns |
USS Ino was a clipper ship acquired by the Union Navy during the course of the American Civil War. She was capable of great speed and distance, and was a formidable warship with powerful guns.
Ino was a clipper ship, purchased at Boston, Massachusetts, 30 August 1861 and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 23 September, Lt. J. P. Cressy in command. Unusual speed and large storage space suited her ideally for long-range cruising against Confederate commerce raiders.
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