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USS Pequot

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Kansas Class Gunboat

Laid down, date unknown, at Boston Navy Yard as the wood-hull screw gunboat Pequot

Launched, 4 June 1863

Commissioned, 15 January 1864, at Boston Navy Yard, LCDR. Stephen P. Quackenbush in command

Pequot departed Boston 5 February and joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron

She captured British blockade runner Don off Beaufort, N.C., 4 March 1964

Pequot helped the Army beat back a Confederate attack on Wilson's Wharf, James River, VA., 24 May, 1864

Blockade duty occupied her until she participated in the attacks on Fort Fisher which protected Wilmington, N.C., 24 February 1864 and 13 January 1865

She also helped capture Fort Anderson, N.C.

Decommissioned at New York Navy Yard, 3 June 1865

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

Sold in 1869 to Haiti and renamed Terreur

Final Disposition, Captured by Haitian rebels in 1969 and destroyed during an attack on the presidential palace

Specifications:
Displacement 593 t.
Length 190'
Beam 29'
Depth of Hull unknown
Draft 12'
Speed 10-11 kts
Complement 180 Armament

one 50-pdr gun

one 30-pdr Parrott rifle

six 32-pdrs

two 23-pdr howitzers

one heavy 12-pdr gun

one 12-pdr rifle

Propulsion Steam

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