USS Tallahoma

History
Name	Tallahoma
Builder	Brooklyn Navy Yard
Launched	28 Nov 1863
Acquired	27 Dec 1865
Commissioned	Never
Renamed	Mary M. Roberts (1868)
Fate	Sold by Navy, 29 August 1868; disappears from shipping registers after 1870
General characteristics
Class and type	Sassacus class gunboat

Tallahoma—a wooden-hulled, sidewheel, "double-ended" gunboat of the Sassacus class—was constructed at the New York Navy Yard and launched on 28 November 1862. However, since her construction was not completed until 1867—when the Civil War which had prompted her construction had ended—the ship saw no service. After a brief period in ordinary at New York, the ship was sold on 29 August 1868.

Documented as Mary M. Roberts on 10 November 1868, the erstwhile gunboat was converted to a barge on 21 December 1870, and she disappeared from the lists of merchant vessels.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.