USS Moose (1863)
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Ordered | as Florence Miller II |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | 1863 |
| Acquired | 20 May 1863 |
| Commissioned | 20 May 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 12 April 1865 |
| Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate | Sold, 17 August 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 189 tons |
| Length | 154 ft 8 in (47.14 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft 2 in (9.80 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 6 knots |
| Complement | not known |
| Armament | six 24-pounder guns |
USS Moose was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Moose, a wooden sternwheel steam gunboat built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863 as Florence Miller II, was purchased at Cincinnati 20 May 1863, and commissioned immediately, Comdr. LeRoy Fitch in command.