USS Sam Houston (1861)

History
United States
Captured7 July 1861
FateSold, 25 April 1866
General characteristics
Displacement66 tons
Propulsionschooner sail
Complement15
Armamentone heavy 12-pounder smoothbore cannon

USS Sam Houston was a small (66-ton) schooner captured by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War.

She served the Union Navy during the blockade of ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America as a ship's tender, pilot boat, and dispatch boat, but also as a gunboat when the occasion presented itself.

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