USS Port Royal (1862)

History
United States
Name	USS Port Royal
Namesake	One of the Sea Islands
Launched	17 January 1862
Commissioned	26 April 1862
Decommissioned	23 May 1866
Fate	Sold, 3 October 1866
General characteristics
Type	steamboat
Displacement	805 tons
Length	209 ft (64 m)
Beam	35 ft (11 m)
Draft	9 ft (2.7 m)
Depth of hold	11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Propulsion	steam engine, side-wheel propelled
Speed	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)

USS Port Royal was a double-ended gunboat built for the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. The vessel was assigned to patrol the rivers and other waterways of the Confederate States of America and to enforce the Union blockade on the South.