USS Harriet Lane

USS Harriet Lane

Transferred from the Revenue Service March 30, 1861.

Side-wheel third rate steamer

Launched 1857

639 tons

Length 180 ft. X beam 30 ft x 10 draft

Guns:

 

1858: 1 x 32-pdr pivot gun; 4 x 24-pdrs; 1 x 12-pdr

1861 (1 June): 3 x 32-pdrs; 4 x 24pdrs

1862 (Feb): 3 x 9”; 1 x 30-pdr

Crew 100

USS Harriet Lane firing on USMS passenger ship Nashville out of New York, April 11, 1861

USS Harriet Lane firing on Confederate batteries June 1, 1861

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