USS Nyack (1863)

History
United States
NameUSS Nyack
BuilderNew York Navy Yard
Laid down25 March 1863
Launched6 October 1863
Commissioned28 September 1864
Decommissioned15 March 1871
FateSold, 30 November 1883
General characteristics
TypeScrew gunboat
Displacement836 long tons (849 t)
Length179 ft 6 in (54.71 m)
Beam29 ft 8 in (9.04 m)
Draft11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Speed10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament
  • 1 × 100-pounder Parrott rifle
  • 1 × 30-pounder Parrott rifle
  • 2 × 9 in (230 mm) Dahlgren smoothbores
  • 2 × 24-pounder guns
  • 1 × 12-pounder rifle
  • 1 × heavy 12-pounder rifle

USS Nyack (/ˈnaɪ.æk/ ⓘ) was a wooden-hulled screw gunboat of the United States Navy that saw action in the American Civil War. After the Civil war, she was transferred to the Pacific where she patrolled the west coast of South America until she was decommissioned in 1871. She was sold and broken up in 1883.

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