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USS Conemaugh (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Octorara Class Sidewheel Gunboat:
  • Built in 1861-62 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME.
  • Launched, 1 May 1862
  • Commissioned USS Conemaugh, 16 July 1862, LT. R. Werden in command
  • During the Civil War USS Conemaugh was:
  • Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, at Port Royal, S.C. 30 July 1862
  • Decommissioned, 23 September 1863, at Philadelphia Navy Yard for overhaul
  • Recommissioned, 24 January 1864 and reassigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron >
  • Captured blockade runner Judson, 30 April 1864
  • Participated in the landing of troops at Dauphin Island, 3 August 1864
  • Assigned to South Atlantic Blockading from 20 May to 22 November after second overhaul at Philadelphia in 1864
  • Joined the North Atlantic Squadron, 27 May 1866
  • Decommissioned, 27 July 1867, at New York Navy Yard
  • Sold, 1 October 1867
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 955 t.
    Length 233' 9"
    Beam 34' 10"
    Draft 8'
    Speed 11 kts
    Complement 125
    Armament
    one 100-pdr Parrott rifle
    one 11" smoothbore
    six 24-pdr smoothbores
    one 12pdr smoothbore
    Propulsion steam
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    Conemaugh 51k USS Conemaugh at anchor during the Civil War, location unknown. Note 100-pounder Parrott rifled gun pivot-mounted just forward of her smokestack. The dark band painted around the smokestack may be an identification feature.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 49989    		 Bill Gonyo
    Conemaugh 75k USS Conemaugh at anchor during the Civil War, location unknown.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55319    		 Bill Gonyo
    Conemaugh 73k USS Conemaugh at anchor during the Civil War, location unknown.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55320    		 Bill Gonyo
    Conemaugh 114k Contemporary photograph of a Civil War era drawing of USS Conemaugh underway.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 2740    		 Bill Gonyo
    USS Conemaugh (I)
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