USS Moose (1863)

History
United States
Ordered	as Florence Miller II
Laid down	date unknown
Launched	1863
Acquired	20 May 1863
Commissioned	20 May 1863
Decommissioned	12 April 1865
Stricken	1865 (est.)
Fate	Sold, 17 August 1865
General characteristics
Displacement	189 tons
Length	154 ft 8 in (47.14 m)
Beam	32 ft 2 in (9.80 m)
Draft	5 ft (1.5 m)
Propulsion	steam engine sternwheel-propelled
Speed	6 knots
Complement	not known
Armament	six 24-pounder guns

USS Moose was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

Moose, a wooden sternwheel steam gunboat built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863 as Florence Miller II, was purchased at Cincinnati 20 May 1863, and commissioned immediately, Comdr. LeRoy Fitch in command.