High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Tempest (1862) was a 161-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War for service against the Confederate States of America. Tempest was commissioned as a gunboat at the end of the war and was assigned demobilization operations in western waters of the Confederacy. Tempest -- a wooden-hulled, sidewheel steamer built in 1862 at Louisville, Kentucky -- was acquired by the Navy at Cincinnati, Ohio, on 30 December 1864 from Joseph Brown; was converted there to a gunboat by Mr. Brown; and was commissioned on 26 April, Acting Volunteer Lt. Comdr. William G. Saltonstall in command.

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