. . "--04-02"^^ . . "Santiago de Cuba"@en . . . . "Jeremiah Simonson"@en . . . "Santiago de Cuba"@en . . . . . . "*Official Number 22825\n*Signal letters H.R.G.N"@en . . . . . . . . . . "200000.0"^^ . . "1899"^^ . . . . "1861-11-05"^^ . "1861-09-06"^^ . . . . . . "27'"@en . . . . . . "*sail and steam engine\n*side wheel-propelled"@en . . . . . "48"^^ . "962.0"^^ . . "108000.0"^^ . . . . . . . . . . "69.7992"^^ . . . . . "69799.2"^^ . . "1865-06-17"^^ . . . . "1865-09-21"^^ . . "1886"^^ . . . . . . "Title"@en . . . . . "USS Santiago de Cuba"@en . "2174468"^^ . . . "11.5824"^^ . . "Marion"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Schooner barge"@en . . . . . . "108000.0"^^ . "1865-09-21"^^ . . "1865-06-17"^^ . . "4.8768"^^ . "1567"^^ . . . . . . . . "USS Santiago de Cuba"@en . . . . "United States"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "64206"^^ . . . . . . . "Marion"@en . . "200000.0"^^ . . "sold, 21 September 1865" . "F. H. & A. H. Chappell Company"@en . . . . "1861-04-02"^^ . . "--09-21"^^ . . . . . "United States Navy"@en . "1861-09-06"^^ . . . . . . "USS Santiago de Cuba was a side-wheel steamship acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat with powerful 20-pounder rifled guns and 32-pounder cannon and was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. She was notably successful in this role, capturing several blockade runners. Her last major action of the war was the assault on Fort Fisher, during which seven of her crew won the Medal of Honor. After the war she was sold by the Navy and began a long career of commercial service as a passenger liner and freighter. It is evident from the string of short assignments with a variety of shipping lines that she was not ideally suited for this role. Her paddlewheel propulsion and wooden hull were already obsolescing at the time of the Civil War, when modern ships were constructed with propellers and iron hulls. By one account, she was the last paddlewheel steamer to cross the Atlantic. Finally, in 1886, her engine was removed and she was converted into a barge for transporting coal. She disappears from Federal records in 1899 and her ultimate fate is unknown."@en . "1108117929"^^ . . "1861-11-05"^^ . . . . . . . . "1886"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . "USS Santiago de Cuba"@en . . . . . . . . . "USS Santiago de Cuba was a side-wheel steamship acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat with powerful 20-pounder rifled guns and 32-pounder cannon and was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. She was notably successful in this role, capturing several blockade runners. Her last major action of the war was the assault on Fort Fisher, during which seven of her crew won the Medal of Honor."@en . . . . . . . "114"^^ . . . . . . "14"^^ . . "*two 20-pounder Parrott rifles\n*eight 32-pounder guns"@en . . . . . . .