USS Commodore Perry

    Lt. Charles Flusser, Commanding

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Description: Wooden side-wheel steam ferry

 

Tonnage: 513 tons

 

Length: 143’

 

Beam: 33’

 

Draft: 10’

 

Purchased: 2 October 1861

 

Commissioned: October 1861

 

Built: 1859 by Stack and Joyce, Williamsburg, NY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class of Gun

Reg. No.

Foundry

Prover

Weight

Year

 

IX-inch shell

326

C.A. & Co.

W.R.T.

9150 lbs.

1861

 

IX-inch shell

329

C.A. & Co.

W.R.T.

9140

1861

 

32-pdr

9

C.A. & Co.

G.A.M.

4765

1846

 

32-pdr

13

C.A. & Co.

G.A.M.

4792

1846

 

12-pdr

88

WNY

J.A.D

758

1861