USS Nyack (1863)
Gunboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Nyack.
USS Nyack (/ˈnaɪ.æk/ ⓘ) was a wooden-hulled screw gunboat of the United States Navy that saw action in the American Civil War. After the Civil war, she was transferred to the Pacific where she patrolled the west coast of South America until she was decommissioned in 1871. She was sold and broken up in 1883.
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Name | USS Nyack |
Builder | New York Navy Yard |
Laid down | 25 March 1863 |
Launched | 6 October 1863 |
Commissioned | 28 September 1864 |
Decommissioned | 15 March 1871 |
Fate | Sold, 30 November 1883 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw gunboat |
Displacement | 836 long tons (849 t) |
Length | 179 ft 6 in (54.71 m) |
Beam | 29 ft 8 in (9.04 m) |
Draft | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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