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USS Penobscot (I)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Unadalla-class Screw Gunboat:
Laid down in September 1861 as wooden steamer gunboat Penobscot by C.P. carter, Belfast, ME., Engines by Allaire Works, New York, N.Y. for $97,500
Launched, 19 November 1861
Delivered to the Boston Navy Yard, 16 January 1862
Commissioned, date unknown
USS Penobscot was initially assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Penobscot destroyed her first Confederate vessel, the schooner Sereta, grounded and abandoned off Shallotte Inlet, N.C., 8 June 1862
On 1 August she seized sloop Lizzie off New Inlet and on 22 October British brig Robert Burns off Cape Fear
On 3 November off Shallotte Inlet, she forced the British ship Pathfinder aground, then destroyed her
Continuing her patrol of the Carolina coast into the summer of 1863, she forced blockade runner Kate ashore at Smith's Island 12 July
Reassigned to the Gulf of Mexico in early January 1864, Penobscot joined the blockade ships cruising off the Texas coast
On 28 January 1864, she provided support for troops landed on the Matagorda Peninsula
On 28 February she seized the British schooner Lilly attempting to run the blockade at Velasco to deliver her cargo of powder
On the next day she captured schooners Stingray and John Douglas, outward bound with cargoes of cotton
On 12 July, off Galveston she intercepted the schooner James Williams with a cargo of medicine, coffee, and liquor
On 18 February Penobscot made her last interceptions. She forced the schooners Mary Agnes and Louisa ashore at Aransas Pass and on the 19th sent
a boat crew to destroy them
After the war Penobscot returned to the cast coast
She decommissioned at New York Navy Yard, 31 July 1865
Sold at public auction, 19 October 1869, at Portsmouth, N.H., to Nehemiah Gibson
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
Displacement 507 t.
Length 158'4"
Beam 28'
Depth of Hold 12'
Draft 10'6"
Rig 2-masted schooner
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament
one XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore
one 20-pdr Parrott rifle
two 24-pdr howitzers
Propulsion>
two horizontal back-action, surface condenser steam engines; cylinder diameter 30", stroke 18"
two Martin's tubular boilers each with two furnaces
twin screws
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Penobscot (I)
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