USS Commodore Perry (1859)
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USS Commodore Perry
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| Name: | USS Commodore Perry |
| Namesake: | Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1859 at Williamsburg, New York |
| Acquired: | 2 October 1861 |
| Commissioned: | October 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 June 1865 at New York City |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 12 July 1865 |
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| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 512 long tons (520 t) |
| Length: | 143 ft (44 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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| Speed: | 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) |
| Complement: | 125 |
| Armament: | 2 × 9 in (230 mm) guns, 2 × 32-pounder smoothbore guns, 1 × 12-pounder howitzer |
USS Commodore Perry (1858) was a 512 long tons (520 t) steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War.
Commodore Perry was outfitted as a gunboat with heavy guns and a large crew of 125 officers and enlisted personnel. Her powerful guns were capable of doing considerable damage to blockade runners or shore fortifications of the Confederate States of America.
Commodore Perry — an armed, side-wheel ferry — was built in 1859 by Stack and Joyce, Williamsburg, New York; purchased by the Navy on 2 October 1861; and commissioned later in the month, Acting Master F. J. Thomas in command.
The ship was named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, who commanded American forces on Lake Erie in the War of 1812, and his brother Matthew Calbraith Perry, who negotiated the Convention of Kanagawa historic treaty which opened Japan to American commerce, and who had died the previous year, in 1858.
Commodore Perry sailed from Hampton Roads, Virginia on 17 January 1862 to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and on 7–8 February took part in the attack, in cooperation with the Union Army, which resulted in the surrender of Roanoke Island, part of the long campaign through which the Navy secured key coastal points.
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