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USS Shamokin I: A Postwar Gunboat

Commissioned in 1865, the first USS Shamokin served in the South Atlantic after the Civil War, protecting American interests and supporting diplomacy.

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USS Shamokin I watercolor by Erik HeylErik Heyl's 1951 watercolor of the first U.S. Navy vessel named Shamokin.Image date unknown

Built for a War That Had Ended

Shamokin I was an iron sidewheel double-ender commissioned after Civil War hostilities for South Atlantic service.

South Atlantic Service

The vessel was commissioned on October 17, 1865 and decommissioned on December 24, 1868.

The Name Shamokin

Its namesake referred to the older Indigenous settlement, and its principal service involved diplomacy and protection rather than Civil War combat.