USS Maratanza (1861)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Maratanza |
| Laid down: | 1861 |
| Launched: | 26 November 1861 |
| Commissioned: | 12 April 1862 |
| Decommissioned: | 21 June 1865 |
| Struck: | 1868 (est.) |
| Fate: | Sold August 1868 |
| Notes: | Subsequently served in Haitian Navy as Salnave and Union |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 786 tons |
| Length: | 209 ft (64 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
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| Speed: | 10 knots |
| Complement: | not known |
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| Armour: | wood |
USS Maratanza (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Double-ender, wooden steamer Maratanza, built at Boston Navy Yard in 1861, was launched 26 November 1861 and commissioned at Boston, Massachusetts, on 12 April 1862, Commander Gustavus H. Scott in command.
Immediately after commissioning, Maratanza saw service in support of General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, operating on the York and James rivers from April to September 1862. After participating in the capture of Yorktown on 3 May 1862, Maratanza shelled various points, including Wormley's Creek, Murrell's Inlet, and Fort Darling (Drewry's Bluff). En route to scouting Turkey Bend on 4 July 1862, she engaged and captured the Confederate steamer CSS Teaser at Haxall's.
After the collapse of the Peninsula Campaign, Maratanza departed Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 15 September 1862 for blockade and cruising duty off Wilmington, North Carolina, firing on Fort Casswell on 25 September 1862. She remained there on patrol duty through much of the conflict, joining USS Chocura in capturing the sloop Express off the South Carolina coast on 4 May 1863 and capturing the sloop Ceres on Western Bar, Smith's Island, North Carolina, on 7 December 1863.
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