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Name | USS Donegal |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 1860 |
Commissioned | 3 September 1864 |
Decommissioned | 8 September 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Captured | Captured by the Union Navy, 6 June 1864 |
Fate | Sold, 27 September 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steamer |
Displacement | 1,080 long tons (1,100 t) |
Length | 200 ft (61 m) |
Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
Complement | 130 |
Armament | 2 × 30-pounder rifles, 2 × 12-pounder smoothbore guns |
USS Donegal was a captured Confederate steamship acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War. She was put into service by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Donegal stood down the Delaware River after her commissioning for Charleston, South Carolina, with supplies and a large number of officers and men for ships of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She returned to Philadelphia on 16 September, and from 24 September-12 December made four similar voyages.
Later, in 1865, she patrolled the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia until 20 August, when she sailed for New York City, arriving four days later. She rescued the crew of USS Commodore McDonough which sank on the 23rd while being towed to New York.
Donegal was decommissioned on 8 September 1865 and sold on 27 September.