USS Pequot (1863)
USS Pequot. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Pequot |
| Namesake | Pequot tribe |
| Launched | 4 June 1863 |
| Commissioned | 15 January 1864 |
| Decommissioned | 3 June 1865 |
| Fate | Sold, 1869 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Length | 190 ft (58 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 130 |
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The first USS Pequot was a wooden screw gunboat of the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was launched on 4 June 1863 by the Boston Navy Yard; and commissioned there on 15 January 1864, Lt. Comdr. Stephen P. Quackenbush in command. The ship was named for the Pequot Indian tribe resident in Southern Connecticut, members of the Algonquian language grouping.