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NH 108166-A USS PORTSMOUTH

USS PORTSMOUTH
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Title: USS PORTSMOUTH
Caption: Acquisition - launched October 23, 1843. Cost. -total, of building and repairing to December 15, 1861, $313,632.33. Description - class: sailing sloop-of-war; wood. Rate, rig, etc. 3d; ship. Tonnage. - 1,022. Draft. - provisioned for 6 months and stored for 3 years; forward, 16'8"; aft. 17'. Speed - maximum, 14; average 4 knots. Battery -- September 27, 1861, 16 VIII-inch 63 cwt., 1 light 12-pounder; December 14, 1863, add 1 20 pounder. Parott rifle to the preceding; July 1, 1863, 16 VIII-inch 63 cwt., 2 VIII- inch 55 cwt., 1 20-pdr. Parrott rifle, 1 heavy 12-pounder; March 31, 1864, remove 1 20-pounder. Parrott rifle from the preceding; June 30, 1864; add 1 100-pounder. Parott rifle to that of July 1, 1863; June 30, 1865 remove 1 heavy 12-pounder from the preceding. Remarks - October 1, 1861, out of commission, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. December 1, 1861, recommissioned; finally went out of commission, September 11, 1865, at New York Navy Yard.
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Catalog #: NH 108166-A
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage Command
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After this Year: 1860
Before this Year: 1869
Original Medium: Print, BW Photo
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