USS Tristram Shandy (1864)
USS Tristram Shandy (1864) was a 444-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
With her Parrott rifle installed, she was used by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederate States of America to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
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