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USS Cairo
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| Career
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| Launched:
| 1861
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| Commissioned:
| January 1862
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| Decommissioned:
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| Fate:
| Sunk December 12, 1862
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 512 tons
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| Length:
| 175 ft (53 m)
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| Beam:
| 51 ft 2 in (15.6 m)
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| Draught:
| 6 ft (1.8 m)
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| Propulsion:
| Steam engine, paddle wheels
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| Speed:
| 4 knots (7 km/h)
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| Complement:
| 251 officers and men
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| Armament:
| 6 x 32 pounder (15 kg) cannons, 3 x 8 in (203 mm) smoothbore cannons, 4 x 42 pounder (19 kg) rifled cannons, 1 x 12 pounder (5 kg) howitzer
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USS Cairo, an ironclad river gunboat, was built in 1861 by James Eads and Co., Mound City, Illinois, under contract to the United States Department of War. She was commissioned as part of the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla.
She was the capital ship of the City class ironclad gunboats, also called Cairo class. Cairo was the first ship sunk by a naval mine, on December 12, 1862 in the Yazoo River.
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