USS Ceres

      Acting Master John MacDiarmid, Commanding

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Description: Wooden side-wheel steamer

 

Tonnage: 144 tons

 

Length: 108’4”

 

Beam: 22’4”

 

Draft: 6’3”

 

Purchased: 11 September 1861

 

From: Peter Craig

 

Built: 1856 at Keyport, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class of Gun

Reg. No.

Foundry

Prover

Weight

Year

 

30-pdr Parrott

17

 

W.R.T.

3520 lbs.

1861