Gunboats (PG, PGM)


Pre-War Construction

USN Type Pennant # Name Shipbuilder Location Hull # Disp. Tons FY Delivered Disposition
    Sachem   New York NY   197   1844 Captured by CSN 1863
    Vixen Brown & Bell New York NY   240   1845 Sold 1855
    Allegheny Tomlinson & Co. Pittsburgh PA   989   1847 Sold 1869
    Whitehall   Brooklyn NY   326   1850 Burnt 1862
    Mount Vernon   Brooklyn NY   625   1859 Sold 1865
    R. R. Cuyler Samuel Sneeden New York NY   1,200   1860 Wrecked 1867
    Sagamore Atlantic Works Boston MA   507   1861 Sold 1865
    Winona C. & R. Poillon New York NY   507   1861 Sold 1865
    Rescue Harlan & Hollingsworth Wilmington DE   111   1861 Sold 1891
    Seneca J. Simonson New York NY   507   1861 Sold 1868
    St. Louis James Eads Carondelet MO   512   1861 Later "Baron de Kalb", sunk by torpedo 1863
    Wissahiakon John Lynn Philadelphia PA   607   1861 Sold 1865
    Varuna Mallory Mystic CT   1,300   1861 Sunk 1862
    Unadilla Novelty Iron Works New York NY   507   1861  
    Chippewa Webb & Bell New York NY   507   1861 Sold 1865
    Essex   St. Louis MO   614   1861 Sold 1865
    Union   Mystic CT   1,114   1861 Sank 1872
    Whitehead   New Brunswick NJ   136   1861 Burnt 1872
    Cimarron D. S. Merschon Bordentown NJ   860   1862 Sold 1865
    Kanawha G. E. Goodspeed East Haddam CT   507   1862 Sold 1866
    Marblehead G. W. Jackman Newburyport MA   691   1862 Sold 1868
    Kennebec George W. Lawrence Thomaston ME   507   1862 Sold 1865
    Kineo J. W. Dyer Portland ME   507   1862 Sold 1866
    Cairo James Eads Carondelet MO   512   1862 Sunk by torpedo 1862
    Carondelet James Eads Carondelet MO   512   1862 Sold 1865
    Carondelet James Eads Carondelet MO   512   1862 Sold 1866
    Louisville James Eads Carondelet MO   468   1862 Sold 1865
    Indianola Joseph Brown Cincinnati OH   511   1862 Sold 1863
    Aroostook Nathaniel Thompson Kennebunk ME   507   1862 Sold 1869
    Sebago Portsmouth NSY Kittery ME   832   1862 Sold 1867
    Exchange   Brownsville PA   211   1862 Sold 1865
    General Burnside   Wilmington DE   201   1862  
    Romeo   Cincinnati OH   175   1862 Sold 1865
    St. Clair   Belle Vernon PA   203   1862 Sold 1865
    Underwriter   Brooklyn NY   341   1862 Burnt 1864
    Vixen       300   1862  
    General Grant   Monongahela PA   201   1863 Sank 1866
    Tallahatchie   Cincinnati OH   171   1863 Burnt 1869
    Undine   Cincinnati OH   179   1863 Wrecked 1863
    Vicksburg   Mystic CT   886   1863 Sold 1865
    Victory   Cincinnati OH   160   1863 Sold 1865
    Barataria       400     Captured CSN ship, burnt 1863
    General Pillow       38     Captured CSN ship, sold 1865
    Kinsman             Captured CSN ship, sank 1863
    Saco Boston NSY Charlestown MA   593   1864 Sold 1883
    Wyalusing Cramp Shipbuilding Philadelphia PA   1,173   1864 Sold 1867
    Wyalusing Cramp Shipbuilding Philadelphia PA   1,173   1864 Scrapped 1867
    Yucca Donald McKay East Boston MA   373   1864 Sold 1868
    Agawam George W. Lawrence Portland ME   974   1864 Sold 1867
    Yantic Philadelphia NSY Philadelphia PA   836   1864 Sank at her berth 1929
    Metacomet Thomas Stack Brooklyn NY   1,163   1864 Sold 1865
    Elfin       192   1864 Burnt 1864
    Winooski Boston NSY Charlestown MA   1,173   1865 Sold 1868
    Yazoo Cramp Shipbuilding Philadelphia PA   1,175   1865 Scrapped 1974
    Ashuelot Donald McKay East Boston MA   1,370   1865 Wrecked 1883
    Victoria   Kensington PA   254   1866 Sold 1865
    Fern Delamater Iron Works New York NY   840   1871 Sank 1923
    Alert John Roach & Son Chester PA   1,110   1875 Sold 1922
    Albatross Pusey & Jones Wilmington DE   638   1882  
    Gloucester Neafie & Levy Philadelphia PA   786   1891 Ex-"Corsair", sold 1919
    Helena Newport News SB Newport News VA       1897 Sold 1934
    Peoria Neafie & Levy Philadelphia PA   487   1898 Ex-"Philadelphia", sold 1922
    Governor Russell William McKie East Boston MA   485   1898 Struck 1899
PG 1 Yorktown Cramp Shipbuilding Philadelphia PA 255 1,700 1886 23-Apr-89 Scrapped 1921
PG 2 Petrel Columbian Iron Works Baltimore MD   890 1886 10-Dec-89 Sold 1920
PG 3 Concord Delaware River Sbldg. Chester PA 249 1,700 1888 14-Feb-91 PHS quarantine ship 1914, sold 1929
PG 4