High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Scourge was a steamer warship in service during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) between Mexico and the United States. She was the third United States Navy ship of that name. The ship was built as merchant steamer Bangor, by Betts, Harlan, and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware. She was powered by twin screws and was the first iron-hulled, sea-going merchant vessel in the United States. She was bought by the U.S. on December 30, 1846 for service in the Gulf of Mexico. Once equipped, she was renamed Scourge under the command of Lieutenant Charles G. Hunter.

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