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Tallahoma

Sassacus Class Gunboat:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as a wooden-hulled, sidewheel, "double-ended" gunboat at New York Navy Yard
  • Launched, 28 November 1862
  • Construction was completed in 1867 and placed in ordinary at New York
  • Sold, 29 August 1868.
  • Documented as Mary M. Roberts, 10 November 1868
  • Converted to a barge, 21 December 1870
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 974 t.
    Length 205'
    Beam 35'
    Depth 11' 6"
    Draft 9' (loaded)
    Speed 14.5 kts
    Complement 145
    Armament
    two 100-pdr Parrott rifles
    four 9" Dahlgren smoothbores
    two 24-pdr howitzer rifles
    one 12-pdr rifle
    one heavy 12-pdr smoothbore
    Propulsion steam
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    Tallahoma
    098697901    		 142k Tallahoma, a lithograph after a drawing by Parsons, published by Endicott & Co., New York, circa 1865. This image was used in Endicott & Co. prints to represent many, if not all, of the Sassacus class double-ender gunboats.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command Catalog # NH 1737, courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.    		  
    Tallahoma
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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