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Sunday 10 August 2014

American side wheel paddle steam warship USS Connecticut visited Willemstad, Curacao according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 22 April 1865


An item reported the arrival at Willemstad, Curacao on Tuesday the 18th of the steam warship USSS Connecticut captain Charles S. Boggs coming from La Guayra.(1)

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1. Side-wheeler purchased by the Union Navy on 18 July 1861 which was built that year at the shipyard of William Webb, New York City, USA, commissioned on 23 August, decommissioned at the Philadelphia navy Yard, USA on 11 August 1865 and sold on 21 September. With a displacement of 725 tons were her dimensions 76,66 x 11,63 x 6,91 metres or 251’6”x 38’2”x 22’8”, With a speed of 10 knots, a crew numbering 165 men and an armament consisting of 4-32 pd guns and 1-12pd rifled gun.