USS Clyde (1863)
USS Clyde tied up in port, circa 1863–1865. Note this former blockade runner's pivot-mounted Dahlgren howitzer | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Clyde |
| Ordered | as Neptune |
| Acquired | 29 July 1863 |
| Commissioned | 29 July 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 17 August 1865 |
| Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
| Captured |
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| Fate | Sold, 25 October 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steamer |
| Displacement | 294 long tons (299 t) |
| Length | 200 ft 6 in (61.11 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft 6 in (5.64 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 9 kn (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
| Complement | 67 |
| Armament | 2 × 24-pounder howitzers |
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USS Clyde was a paddle steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War, and commissioned to patrol Florida waters. She had been built in 1861 in Glasgow, Scotland as the Clyde passenger steamer Neptune, but sold in 1863 to become a blockade runner, making two successful round trips to Mobile, Alabama before capture. After the war she was sold to mercantile interests as Indian River, but lost shortly afterwards.