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    The first USS Sassacus, a wooden, double-ended, sidewheel steamer in commission in the United States Navy from 1863 to 1865. She saw service in the American...
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  • USS Sassacus may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Sassacus (1862), a wooden, double-ended sidewheel gunboat of the Sassacus...
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    USS Pontoosuc (1864) USS Sassacus (1862) USS Shamrock (1863) USS Tacony (1863) USS Tallahoma (1862) USS Tallapoosa (1863) USS Wateree (1863) USS Winooski (1863) USS Wyalusing (1863)...
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    encountered a flotilla of eight Union warships, including USS Miami, USS Mattabesett, USS Sassacus, and USS Wyalusing, in what would become known as the Battle...
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    (AT-111/ATF-111) USS Sassaba (YT-364/YTB-364/YTM-364) USS Sassacus (1862, YT-193/YTB-193/YTM-193) USS Satago (YTB-414/YTM-414) USS Satanta (YT-270/YTB-270/YTM-270)...
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    of Plymouth, North Carolina by Confederate forces, Mattabesett, with USS Sassacus, captured Bombshell, but Albemarle and Cotton Plant escaped. But for...
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    battle was inconclusive; the Albemarle and USS Sassacus were both damaged, and the CSS Bombshell (the former USS Bombshell) was captured. Albemarle's threat...
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    Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Roe was ordered to command the side-wheel steamer Sassacus on the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in September 1863, and captured...
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    gunboats USS Mattabasett, USS Sassacus, USS Wyalusing and USS Miami, the converted ferryboat USS Commodore Hull, USS Ceres, USS Whitehead and USS Isaac N...
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    and laden with explosives. She left Hampton Roads 13 December in tow of Sassacus for Beaufort, North Carolina, where the loading of powder was completed...
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    USS Ascutney was a large steamer with powerful guns acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat...
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  • "double-ended" gunboat of the Sassacus class—was constructed at the New York Navy Yard and launched on 28 November 1862. However, since her construction...
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  • USS Pontiac was a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the Civil War. She was named for the Ottawa chief, Pontiac...
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  • the same plans as Sassacus. She was reported "laid down" and under construction in Bordentown by the Navy Department on October 15, 1862. By January 31,...
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    gunboat) 1862 — Sonoma - (side-wheel steam gunboat) 1862 — Conemaugh - (side-wheel steam gunboat) 1862Sassacus - (side-wheel steam gunboat) 1862 — Sacramento...
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    1862, launched on 21 April 1863, and commissioned on 9 March 1864, Commander Alexander Rhind in command. She was based on the same plans as Sassacus....
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    ironclad CSS Albemarle. During that engagement, Sassacus rammed the Albemarle as it attempted to escape. Sassacus took a direct hit to the starboard boiler...
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    and the manufacture in the 1860s of the engines for the giant ironclad USS Dunderberg and for the passenger steamers Bristol and Providence, the latter...
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    Morgan Iron Works engines included USS Ticonderoga, USS Ascutney, USS Wachusett and the experimental high-speed warship USS Ammonoosuc. The Works also contracted...
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  • military service with the U.S. Navy in Philadelphia in 1862. He subsequently served as a fireman on the USS Wyalusing. Having initially served 16 months during...
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    USS Osceola was a wooden, sidewheel Sassacus-class gunboat which saw combat with the Union Navy in the American Civil War. She was designed with shallow...
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  • Lackawanna, and for two of the 1,173-ton Sassacus class double-ended sidewheel gunboats, USS Mackinaw and USS Mattabesett. In 1864, the Allaire Works supplied...
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  • launches in 1862 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1862. "Launch". Ipswich Journal. No. 6400. Ipswich. 4 January 1862. "SHIPS BUILT...
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  • sidewheel paddle steamer USS Sassacus ( United States Navy) found and captured her. After salvage efforts failed, the crews of Sassacus and the armed sidewheel...
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