High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Suwanee (1864) was a large (1,030-ton) steamer commissioned by the Union Navy in its struggle against the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. With her large crew of 159 sailors and officers and powerful guns, Suwanee served the Union Navy as a heavy gunboat on the high seas, searching for merchant raiders and blockade runners. Suwanee -- a double-ended, iron-hulled, side-wheel gunboat built at Chester, Pennsylvania -- was launched on 13 March 1864, and was commissioned on 23 January 1865, Comdr. Paul Shirley in command.

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