_NH_45213.jpg) USSPequot. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
.svg)  United States | |
| Name | USSPequot |
| Namesake | Pequot tribe |
| Launched | 4 June 1863 |
| Commissioned | 15 January 1864 |
| Decommissioned | 3 June 1865 |
| Fate | Sold, 1869 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Length | 190 ft (58 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Speed | 11knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 130 |
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The firstUSSPequot was a wooden screwgunboat of theUnion Navy during theAmerican Civil War. The ship was launched on 4 June 1863 by theBoston Navy Yard; and commissioned there on 15 January 1864, Lt. Comdr.Stephen P. Quackenbush in command. The ship was named for thePequot Indian tribe resident in SouthernConnecticut, members of theAlgonquian language grouping.
The new gunboat departedBoston on 5 February and joined theNorth Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She captured British blockade runnerDon offBeaufort, North Carolina, on 4 March, and helped the Army beat back a Confederate attack onWilson's Wharf,James River, Virginia, on 24 May. Blockade duty occupied her until she participated in thefirst andthe second battles on Fort Fisher which protectedWilmington, North Carolina, on 24 February 1864 and 13 January 1865, closing that last major Confederate port. She followed this victory by helping captureFort Anderson, North Carolina.
After the end of the Civil War, she wasdecommissioned at theNew York Navy Yard on 3 June 1865. She remained there in reserve until she was sold to Haiti in 1869, where the ship was renamedTerreur. In December of that year, she was captured by rebels.Terreur was then used to blow up the presidential palace by hitting the barrels of gunpowder stored within.[1]
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