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USS Saco (1863)

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during the demobilization program which followed the end of the fighting. She was recommissioned on 10 June 1866 and operated along the
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Throughout the autumn and into the winter of 1864, the new gunboat cruised along the east coast of
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on 13 July 1876 and remained in ordinary there until she was sold to
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and engine trouble hampered the ship during much of this service,
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American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States
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Index

USS Saco
Union Navy Jack
Boston Navy Yard
Boston
Massachusetts
Gunboat
knots
Parrott rifle
gunboat
United States Navy
American Civil War
launched
Boston Navy Yard
Boston
Massachusetts
commissioned
Lieutenant Commander
John G. Walker
North America
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Canada
Wilmington
North Carolina
Confederate States Navy
blockade runners
boiler
decommissioned
Washington Navy Yard
Washington, D.C.

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