USS State of Georgia (1851)
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| Name: | USS State of Georgia |
| Builder: | Vaughn & Lynn, Philadelphia |
| Launched: | 1851 |
| Acquired: | 25 September 1861 |
| Commissioned: | 20 November 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 September 1864 |
| Recommissioned: | 5 January 1865 |
| Decommissioned: | 9 September 1865 |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | Sold, 25 October 1865 |
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| Type: | Side-wheel steamer |
| Displacement: | 1,204 long tons (1,223 t) |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
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| Complement: | 113 |
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USS State of Georgia was a large steamer with powerful guns acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. State of Georgia, with her crew of 113 sailors and officers, was used by the Union Navy as a gunship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
The ship—a side wheel steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1851 by Vaughn & Lynn—was purchased by the Union Navy at Philadelphia on 25 September 1861 from the Philadelphia and Savannah Steamship Co.; and was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 November 1861, Comdr. James F. Armstrong in command.
The side wheel steamer joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 26 November; and sailed the next day for blockade station off Beaufort, North Carolina; and arrived there on the 28th.
On 22 May off Wilmington, North Carolina, she helped USS Mount Vernon and USS Victoria capture the steamer Constitution of Albany, New York, and sent her to port for adjudication for trading with the enemy. Six days later, she and Victoria captured steamer Nassau—the former notorious blockade runner Gordon—near Fort Casswell, North Carolina. The prize—which had been carrying Enfield rifles, ammunition, and military stores for the Southern Army—was sent to New York City for action by the prize court.
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