U.S.S. Saco (1863)

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U.S.S. Saco (1863)
Builder: Boston NYd[1]
Ordered: c. December 1862
Laid down: Dec, 1862
Launched: 28 Aug, 1863
Commissioned: 11 Jul, 1864
Decommissioned: 13 Jul, 1876[2]
Sold: 20 Oct, 1883[3]
U.S.S. Saco was one of five Nipsic Class gunboats completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Saco was expected to arrive at Malta from Algiers and Tunis on 30 July, 1871, thence to continue onward to Nice.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 130.
  2. Silverstone. Civil War. p. 34.
  3. Silverstone. Civil War. p. 34.
  4. "Naval & Military Intelligence." The Times (London, England), 29 July 1871, p. 5.

Bibliography


Nipsic Class Gunboat
Yantic Saco Nyack Shawmut Kansas
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