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USS Winooski (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Sassacus Class Sidewheel Gunboat:
  • Built at Boston Navy Yard
  • Launched, 30 July 1863
  • Commissioned, USS Winooski, 27 June 1865, at New York Navy Yard, CDR. George W. Cooper in command
  • Assigned to cruise the fishing banks off the coast of Maine from April to August 1866
  • Patrol of the Caribbean from August 1866 to June 1867
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Laid up at Portsmouth, N. H., date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, sold to Mr. John Mullen, at Portsmouth, 25 August 1868, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,173 t.(lt) 973 t.(fl)
    Length 205'
    Beam 35'
    Draft 9'
    Depth 11' 6"
    Speed 10 kts
    Complement 154
    Armament
    two 100-pdr Parrott rifles
    four 9" Dalghren smoothbores
    four 24-pdr howitzers
    two heavy 12-pdr rifles
    Propulsion steam
    two sidewheels
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    Winooski
    091903808    		 194k
    Namesake
    Winooski - The Winooski River (formerly the Onion River) is a tributary of Lake Champlain, approximately 90 miles long, in the northern half of Vermont. Although not Vermont's longest river, it is one of the state's most significant, forming a major valley way from Lake Champlain through the Green Mountains towards (although not connecting in drainage to) the Connecticut River valley.
    Photo of falls on the Winooski River between the cities of Winooski (foreground) and Burlington (far shore), August 2019. © Ken Gallager     		Tommy Trampp
    Sassacus (I)
    098635505    		 85k Generic lithograph representing the Sassacus-class gunboats.
    Wikipedia    		 John Spivey
    Algonquin
    098639502    		 138k USS Winooski and Algonquin moored at the foot of Delancy Street on the East River in New York City, 1865.
    From an 1865 Harpers Publication.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Algonquin 98k The start of the Naval race between USS Winooski and Algonquin, at New York, 13 February 1866. The race was conducted to determine the relative merits of their machinery. Sketched by B.S. Osbon.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57269.    		 Robert Hurst
    Winooski 77k USS Winooski at anchor, after the Civil War had ended, circa 1866.
    US Navy photo NH 43863    		 US Navy History and Heritage Command
    USS Winooski (I)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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