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USS Muscoota

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Steam Gunboat:
  • Built by contract with T.F. Rowland, Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1864 at Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint, N.Y. as a "double ender" Mohongo-class steam gunboat
  • Launched, in 1864
  • Delivered to the Navy, 7 December 1864
  • Commissioned USS Muscoota, 5 January 1865, at New York Navy Yard
  • USS Muscoota ws initially assigned to Hampton Roads
  • Ordered to proceed to Key West, Muscoota departed Norfolk, VA. in May 1865. She was 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 and location unknown
  • Sold at public auction, 17 June 1869, Thomas Clyde at Portsmouth, N.H. She was extensively rebuilt for merchant employment and renamed Tennessee.
  • Final Disposition Tennessee was destroyed by fire near Little River, North Carolina, 29 June 1870
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1030 t.
    Length 255'
    Beam 35'
    Depth of Hold 12'
    Draft loaded; forward 8'3", aft 8'5"
    Speed 13kts
    Rig two-masted schooner
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    two 100-pdr Parrott rifles
    two 20-pdr Dahlgren rifles
    four IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbores
    two 24-pdr howitzers
    Propulsion
    one inclined direct-action surface condenser steam engine; cylinder diameter 58", stroke 8'9"
    four boilers: two main horizontal tublar; two superheater with one furnace in each
    two sidewheels
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    USS Muscoota
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    0986108801    		 162k Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951 of USS Muscoota painted for use in his book Early American Steamers, Volume I.
    US Navy History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 6388 Courtesy of Erik Heyl    		 John Spivey
    Merchant Service
    Muscoota
    0986108802    		 166k Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951 of of SS Tennessee (ex-USS Muscoota) painted for use in his book Early American Steamers, Volume I.
    US Navy History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 6398 Courtesy of Erik Heyl    		 John Spivey
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