High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Owasco was a wooden hulled screw gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for Owasco Lake. Owasco, built by Charles Mallory, was launched at Mystic, Connecticut, 5 October 1861; delivered to the Navy at New York Navy Yard 6 December 1861; and commissioned there 23 January 1862, Lt. John Guest in command. The new “ninety-day gunboat” departed New York 5 February and reached Key West, Florida, 10 days later where Comdr. David D. Porter's mortar flotilla was assemblying. She then headed via Ship Island, Mississippi for Pass a L'Outre. En route, on 16 March, she captured schooners Eugenia and President laden with cotton and bound for Havana.

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