History | |
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United States | |
Namesake | Cherokee Tribe |
Laid down | 1859 |
Acquired | 1864 |
Commissioned | April 1864 |
Decommissioned | 1865 |
Renamed | Ancud |
Fate | Wrecked 1889 |
Chile | |
Name | Ancud |
Namesake | Ship Ancud (1843) |
Operator | Chilean Navy |
Commissioned | 1865 |
Decommissioned | 1878 |
Fate | Sunk near Chiloé, on 25 August 1889 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 606 ton |
Length | 194.5 ft (59.3 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
Speed | 13 kt |
Complement | 92 |
Armour | 2 × 20-pdr. r., 4 × 24-pdr. sb. |
The USS Cherokee was a 606-ton screw steam gunboat in the US Navy during the American Civil War ship. The ship later served in the Chilean Navy.
The steamer Thistle was launched on 2 July 1859 by Laurence Hill & Company at Port Glasgow, Scotland, for passenger and cargo service between Glasgow and Derry.[1][2] She entered service for the Glasgow & Londonderry Steam Packet Company on 30 August. She was a composite-hulled (wood planking on iron frames) steamship, measured at 386 GRT and 206 NRT, and with dimensions of 184.5 ft (56.2 m) length, 25.2 ft (7.7 m) beam and 12.5 ft (3.8 m) depth of hold.[3] Thistle's single-screw was powered by a two-cylinder geared beam engine of 150 NHP made by A. & J. Inglis of Glasgow, and which achieved a speed of 14 knots in trials on 29 August.[2][4]
Under the name Thistle she was used as a blockade runner and in late January 1863 successfully ran through the Federal blockade into Charleston, South Carolina, a favorite port for blockade runners at the time. She ran aground while attempting to leave port a month later. The ship was salvaged, sold to another owner and renamed Cherokee. On 8 May 1863, she again attempted to an outbound passage, but was captured by USS Canandaigua. Prior to delivery to the Boston Prize Court on 7 July, she was used in the search for the Confederate raider
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