USS Lodona (1862)
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  United States
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| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1862 |
| Acquired: | 20 September 1862 |
| Commissioned: | 5 January 1863 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 May 1865 |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
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| Fate: | sold, 20 June 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 750 long tons (760 t) |
| Length: | 210 ft (64 m) |
| Beam: | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
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| Speed: | 7 knots |
| Complement: | 97 |
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| Armor: | iron |
USS Lodona (1862) was a large steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Lodona, a bark-rigged iron screw steamer, was built at Kingston-upon-Hull, England, in 1862 and owned by Z. C. Pearson, London. Captured by Union gunboat USS Unadilla while attempting to run the blockade in Ossawbaw Sound, South Carolina, 4 August 1862, the ship was taken to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under Lt. C. H. Greene for adjudication; condemned; and purchased by the Navy from the Philadelphia Prize Court 20 September 1862. Lodona commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 5 January 1863 with Acting Lieutenant Edmund R. Colhoun in command.
Assigned to Rear Adm. Samuel F. DuPont’s South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Lodana departed Philadelphia 7 January 1863 for Port Royal, South Carolina, touching at Hampton Roads and Fort Monroe, Virginia, where she took in tow monitor USS Weehawken, arriving Port Royal 5 February. The warship sailed 5 days later for Charleston, South Carolina, towing schooner E. W. Gardner, joining the blockade there the next day.
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