- USS Tacony
USS "Tacony" is a name used more than once by the
U.S. Navy :*
USS Tacony (1863) , anAmerican Civil War gunboat .*
USS Tacony (SP-5) , a wooden screw steamyacht built in 1911.References
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USS Tacony (1863) — was a double ended, side wheel steamboat acquired by the Union Navy during the third year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a heavy gunboat with powerful guns and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States … Wikipedia
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USS Commodore Jones (1863) — was a ferryboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Ferryboats were of great value, since, because of their flat bottom and shallow draft, they could navigate streams and shallow waters that other ships could not.She was… … Wikipedia
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