USS Lioness

History
Laid down1859 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Commissioned1862
Decommissioned1865
In service1862-1863
Strickensold, September 1865
Fatecivilian use until 1869
General characteristics
Displacement198 tons
Propulsionstern-wheel steamer

Built in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, in 1857, the steam ship Lioness was purchased by the War Department and converted to a ram ship for Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr.'s United States Ram Fleet. Commissioned in 1862, Lieutenant Warren D. Crandall in command, she joined the Union Mississippi River Squadron on the western rivers.

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