A lithograph of the USS Eutaw
History
United States
Name	USS Eutaw
Builder	J. J. Abrahams, Baltimore, Maryland
Launched	February 1863
Commissioned	2 July 1863
Decommissioned	8 May 1865
Fate	Sold, 15 October 1867
General characteristics
Class and type	Sassacus-class gunboat
Type	Steam gunboat
Displacement	1,173 long tons (1,192 t)
Length	205 ft (62 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draft	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Propulsion	Steam engine
Speed	10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement	135 officers and enlisted
Armament	4 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore guns, 2 × 100-pounder rifled guns, 2 × 20-pounder rifled guns

USS Eutaw was a 1,173 long tons (1,192 t) Sassacus-class "double-ender" steam gunboat built at Baltimore, Maryland by J. J. Abrahams. It was commissioned on 2 July 1863, Lieutenant Commander Homer C. Blake in command.

Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, USS Eutaw spent most of the American Civil War operating on the Potomac and James Rivers and along the Atlantic coast. On 4–5 May 1864, she covered the Army as it landed below City Point, Virginia; and on 14 July and 17 July, bombarded the Confederates at Malvern Hill. On 5 July, with Augusta, she towed the ill-fated monitor Tecumseh from Hampton Roads to the Gulf of Mexico, returning to the James River on 22 August.

In 1865, with the war nearly at an end, Eutaw went to New York City on 26 April, where she was decommissioned on 8 May and sold on October 15, 1867.

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