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USS Muscoota

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Mohongo-class Double-ender Sidewheel Gunboat:
  • Laid down, date unknown, at Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint N.Y.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered, 5 January 1865
  • Placed in Commission, in January 1865
  • USS Muscoota was at Norfolk, VA. in May 1865 when ordered to Key West as part of an effort to prevent Confederate President Jefferson Davis escaping abroad
  • Muscoota remained in the Gulf of Mexico area at least until August 1866, when she was sent north in response to a serious outbreak of yellow fever among her crew
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Sold at Public Auction in 1869
  • Extensively rebuilt for merchant employment, redocumented and renamed SS Tennessee.
  • Final Disposition, destroyed by fire near Little River, N.C., 29 June 1870
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,392 t.
    Length 255'
    Beam 35'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 9'6"
    Speed 13 kts
    Complement 190
    Armament
    two 100-pdr Parrott rifles
    four 9" Parrott rifles
    two 20-pdr Dahlgren rifles
    two 20-pdr guns
    Propulsion
    one Fulton Ironworks inclined direct-acting steam engine
    boiler
    two sidewheels
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    USS Muscoota
    Muscoota
    0986104401    		 145k USS Muscoota: Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951, painted for use in his book Early American Steamers, Volume I. Courtesy of Erik Heyl.
    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photo Catalog # NH 63884    		 John Spivey
    Merchant Service
    Muscoota
    0986104402    		 71k SS Tennessee (ex-USS Muscoota): Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951, painted for use in his book Early American Steamers, Volume I. This steamer was formerly the U.S. Navy gunboat Muscoota. Courtesy of Erik Heyl.
    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photo Catalog # NH 63894    		 John Spivey
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