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| rdfs:comment | - |Ship image= |Ship caption= |module= |module2= }} USS Shamrock (1863) was a large (974 ton) seaworthy steamer with powerful guns, acquired 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. During the war, she participated in the operation of placing a spar torpedo into the dreaded CSS Albemarle, allowing Shamrock to sail on with the Union fleet to attack and capture Plymouth, North Carolina. After the war, she served in the Caribbean and voyaged to Europe prior to final decommissioning.
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| Ship displacement | |
| Ship laid down | |
| Ship commissioned | |
| Ship struck | |
| Ship armament | - four 9” Dahlgren smoothbore guns
- one heavy 12-pounder smoothbore gun
- two 100-pounder Parrott rifles
- two 20-pounder Parrott rifles
- two 24-pounder howitzers
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| Ship decommissioned | - 1865-08-15
- at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
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| Ship complement | |
| Ship propulsion | - steam engine
- double ended
- side wheel-propelled
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| Ship launched | - 1863-03-17
- at the New York Navy Yard
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| abstract | - |Ship image= |Ship caption= |module= |module2= }} USS Shamrock (1863) was a large (974 ton) seaworthy steamer with powerful guns, acquired 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. During the war, she participated in the operation of placing a spar torpedo into the dreaded CSS Albemarle, allowing Shamrock to sail on with the Union fleet to attack and capture Plymouth, North Carolina. After the war, she served in the Caribbean and voyaged to Europe prior to final decommissioning.
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