USS Delta (1864)

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NameUSS Delta
Acquired3 June 1864
In service1864
Out of service1865
FateSold, 5 September 1865
General characteristics
Type Tugboat
Displacement50 long tons (51  t)
Length66 ft (20 m)
Beam14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft7 ft 8 in (2.34 m)
Depth of hold6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion Steam engine
Speed9  kn (10 mph; 17 km/h)
Armament1 × spar torpedo

USS Delta was a steamship used by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

Service history

Delta — a steam tugboat — was purchased as Linda at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 June 1864, and renamed Delta on 27 November. She was also known as Tug No. 4. Delta was sent to Hampton Roads, Virginia, to be fitted as a torpedo (mine) tug, and operated in the James River until 28 March 1865. She was transferred to the sounds of North Carolina for duty, and for a short time in April 1865 was placed at the disposal of the Union Army with four other torpedo tugs. Delta was sent to New York at the close of the war and sold there on 5 September.

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