USS Bat

USS Bat
History
United States
CommissionedDecember 13, 1864
DecommissionedMay 17, 1865
Captured
FateSold, May 25, 1865
General characteristics
Displacement750 long tons (760 t)
Length230 ft (70 m)
Beam26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft8 ft (2.4 m)
Depth of hold12 ft (3.7 m)
Propulsion
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement82
Armament

USS Bat was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. She was also later assigned to carry President Abraham Lincoln to Richmond, Virginia.