Ironclad USS Pittsburgh (1861)
Basic information
Namesake:
Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.
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Commissioned (service):
Decommissioned (out):
Status:
Fate:
Sold for scrap, 1865
Ship measurements
Displacement:
512 t
Length:
53 m
Beam (waterline):
15.7 m
Draft:
1.8 m
Machine
Propulsion:
- 2 * non-condensing reciprocating steam engines
- 22 ft (6.7 m) diameter paddle whee
Speed:
8 knots
Personnel
Complement:
251
Combat assets
Armor:
- 2.5 in (64 mm) on casemate
- 1.25 in (32 mm) on pilot house
- hull, deck, and stern unprotected
Armament:
January 1862
- 3 * 8-inch smoothbores
- 2 * 42-pounder rifles
- 6 * 32-pounder rifles
- 2 * 30-pounder rifles
- 1 * 12-pounder smoothbore
September 1864
- 2 * 9-inch smoothbores
- 2 * 9-inch rifles
- 2 * 8-inch smoothbores
- 1 * 100-pounder rifle
- 2 * 32-pounder rifles
- 2 * 30-pounder rifles
- 1 * 12-pounder smoothbore
USS Pittsburgh (1861) (often Pittsburg) was a City-class ironclad gunboat constructed for the Union Army by James B. Eads during the American Civil War, and transferred to the Union Navy in October 1862. She was commissioned in January 1862, Commander Egbert Thompson in command.
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