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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive USS Nyack Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Screw Gunboat:
Laid down in 1863 as a wooden-hulled screw gunboat at New York Navy Yard in 1863, machinery by contract with South Brooklyn Iron Works, Brooklyn, N.Y., $257,952,12
Launched, 6 October 1863
Delivered, 20 July 1864, to New York Navy Yard with machinery completed
Commissioned USS Nyack, 28 September 1864, at New York Navy Yard, LCDR. L. Howard Newman, USN in command.
USS Nyack joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Wilmington, N.C., for duty through the close of the Civil War
She participated in attacks on Fort Fisher in the Cape Fear River 24 and 25 December 1864
She also participated in the capture of Fort Anderson, 18 and 19 February 1865.
In 1866 USS Nyack was ordered to the Pacific where she cruised the coasts of Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, protecting American nationals while maintaining American neutrality during tension between Spain and her former colonies
Nyack returned to San Francisco early in 1871
Decommissioning 15 March 1871
Sold, 30 September 1883, to W. E. Mighell at San Francisco
Final Disposition, fate unknown Specifications:
Displacement 836 t.
Length 179'6"
Beam 29'8"
Depth of Hold 12'3"
Draft forward loaded 9', aft 11'8"
Speed maximum 10 kts.
Rig top sail schooner
Complement unknown
Armament
9 October 1864 - one 100-pdr Parrott rifle, one 30-pdr Parrott rifle, two IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, two 24-pdrs, one 12-pdr rifle, one heavy 12-pdr rifle
29 March 1865 - one 100-pdr Parrott rifle, one 30-pdr Parrott rifle, two IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, two 24-pdrs, two 12-pdr rifles
4 October 1865 - one 100-pdr Parrott rifle, one 30-pdr Parrott rifle, two IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, four 24-pdrs, two 12-pdr rifles
Propulsion
two horizontal back-action, surface condenser steam engines, cylinder diameter 30", stroke 21"
two vertical tubular boilers
single screw
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