USS Alert (1861)
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USS Alert was a 90 long tons (91 t) steamship named A. C. Powell purchased by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War.
For other ships with the same name, see USS Alert and USS Powell.
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United States | |
Name | USS Alert |
Ordered | as A. C. Powell |
Laid down | Unknown |
Launched | in 1861 at Syracuse, New York |
Acquired |
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Commissioned | circa 3 October 1861 |
Decommissioned |
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Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Fate |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Tugboat / Dispatch boat / Ship's tender / Gunboat |
Displacement | 90 long tons (91 t) |
Length | 62 ft (19 m) |
Beam | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) |
Depth of hold | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) |
Complement | 15 |
Armament | 1 × 24-pounder rifled howitzer |
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A. C. Powell – later renamed Alert, and still later renamed Watch – served primarily as a tugboat, but at times she performed duty as a dispatch boat, ship's tender, and even as a gunboat despite the fact that she had on board only a howitzer instead of a cannon or rifle.