USS Shawsheen

    Acting Master Thomas J. Woodard, Commanding

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Description: Wooden side-wheel steam tugboat

 

Tonnage: 180 tons

 

Length: 118’

 

Beam: 22’6”

 

Draft:

 

Purchased: 21 Sept 1861

 

From: S. Schuyler

 

Built: 1855 at New York, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class of Gun

Reg. No.

Foundry

Prover

Weight

Year

 

30-pdr Parrott

8

W.P.F.

 

3517 lbs.

1861

 

20-pdr Parrott

71

W.P.F.

 

1698 lbs.

1861