USS Fulton (1837)

Drawing of Fulton as originally built in 1837
History
United States
Namesake	Robert Fulton
Builder	U.S. Government at Brooklyn Navy Yard[1]
Cost	$509,998.52[1]
Laid down	1835
Launched	18 May 1837
Commissioned	13 December 1837
Decommissioned	23 November 1842
In service	25 January 1852
Out of service	1862
Stricken	1862
Captured	by Confederate forces, 12 January 1861
Fate	Destroyed, 10 May 1862
General characteristics
Class and type	Side-wheel steamer
Tonnage	720
Length	180 ft (55 m)
Beam	34 ft 8 in (10.57 m)
Draft	13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion	steam engine, side wheel
Speed	10 knots
Complement	130
Armament	four 32-pounder guns

USS Fulton was a steamer that served the U.S. Navy prior to the American Civil War, and was recommissioned in time to see service in that war. However, her participation was limited to being captured by Confederate forces in the port of Pensacola, Florida, at the outbreak of war.

The second ship to be named Fulton by the Navy, a side wheel steamer, her build commenced in 1835, and she was launched 18 May 1837 by Brooklyn Navy Yard;^[2] and commissioned 13 December 1837, Captain M. C. Perry in command. She was often called Fulton II. Fulton I was the renamed floating battery Demologos.