USS Sebago (1861)
USS Sebago, 1862
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| Name: | USS Sebago |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
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| Commissioned: | 26 March 1862 |
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| Struck: | 1867 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 19 January 1867 |
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| Type: | Double-ended gunboat |
| Displacement: | 832 long tons (845 t) |
| Length: | 228 ft 2 in (69.55 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 10 in (10.31 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × 590 IHP, 44-inch bore by 7 ft stroke inclined direct-acting steam engine; sidewheels |
| Speed: | Unknown |
| Complement: | 156 |
| Armament: | 1 × 100-pounder Parrott rifle, 1 × 9 in (230 mm) Dahlgren gun smoothbore, 4 × 24-pounder howitzers |
USS Sebago (1861) was a large (832 long tons (845 t)) steamer with very powerful guns and four howitzers, purchased by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.
With her large crew of 156 sailors, she served the Union Navy during the blockade of ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America as a gunboat.
Sebago — a double-ended, sidewheel gunboat built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine — was launched on 30 November 1861; and commissioned on 26 March 1862, Lieutenant Edmund W. Henry in command.
Sebago departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire on 6 April 1862 and headed for Hampton Roads, Virginia, to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and reached Newport News, Virginia on the 11th.
She was ordered to the York River to support General George B. McClellan's push up the peninsula toward Richmond, Virginia, and operated in that river and its tributaries supporting Union Army operations.
Then, on 30 June, after General Robert E. Lee had defeated McClellan in the Seven Days Campaign and had driven the Army of the Potomac from the York to the James River, Sebago steamed downstream, rounded Old Point Comfort, and ascended the James escorting Army transports.
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