USS Chickasaw(1864)
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USS Chickasaw
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| Name: | USS Chickasaw |
| Namesake: | Chickasaw Indians |
| Builder: | Gaylord, Son and Co., St. Louis, Missouri |
| Laid down: | 1862 |
| Launched: | 10 February 1864 |
| Commissioned: | 14 May 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 6 July 1865 |
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| Fate: | Sold, 12 September 1874 |
| Owner: | New Orleans Pacific Railway Company |
| Acquired: | 12 September 1874 |
| Renamed: | Samson, 1874 |
| Renamed: | Gouldsboro, 1880 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1940s |
| Owner: | New Orleans Coal & Bisso Towboat Co. |
| Acquired: | 1940s |
| Fate: | Sank, 1950s |
| Status: | Wreck surveyed, 2004 |
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| Class and type: | Milwaukee-class monitor |
| Displacement: | 1,300 long tons (1,300 t) |
| Tons burthen: | 970 bm |
| Length: | 229 ft (69.8 m) |
| Beam: | 56 ft (17.1 m) |
| Draft: | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 7 × Tubular boilers |
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| Speed: | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Armament: | 2 × 2 - 11-inch (279 mm) Smoothbore Dahlgren guns |
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USS Chickasaw was an ironclad Milwaukee-class river monitor built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, during which she was lightly damaged, and the bombardments of Forts Gaines and Morgan as Union troops besieged the fortifications defending the bay. In March–April 1865, Chickasaw again supported Union forces during the Mobile Campaign as they attacked Confederate fortifications defending the city of Mobile, Alabama.
She was placed in reserve after the end of the war and sold in 1874. Her new owners converted Chickasaw into a train ferry in 1881 and renamed her Gouldsboro. The ship was later converted into a barge and remained in use until she sank sometime during the 1950s. Her wreck was discovered in the Mississippi River in New Orleans in 2003, although there are no plans to raise her.
Chickasaw was 229 feet (69.8 m) long overall and had a beam of 56 feet (17.1 m). The ship had a depth of hold of 8 feet 6 inches (2.6 m) and a draft of 6 feet (1.8 m). She was 970 tons burthen and displaced 1,300 long tons (1,300 t). Her crew numbered 138 officers and enlisted men.
The ship was powered by two 2-cylinder horizontal non-condensing steam engines, each driving two propellers, using steam generated by seven tubular boilers. The engines were designed to reach a top speed of 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph). Chickasaw carried 156 long tons (159 t) of coal.
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