USS Glide (1863)

USS Glide in 1864
History
Launched	1863
Acquired	1863
Commissioned	November 1863
Decommissioned	August 1865
Fate	sunk, January 1869
General characteristics
Displacement	232 tons
Length	160 ft (49 m)
Propulsion	Steam
Armament	6 guns

For other ships with the same name, see USS Glide.

The second USS Glide was a sternwheel tinclad gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

Originally built in Murraysville, Virginia in 1863, was purchased by the Navy the same year. She was converted to a "tinclad" gunboat No. 43 USS Glide. From early 1864 until the end of the war she was assigned to blockading duties in Berwick Bay, Louisiana. She was decommissioned and sold in August 1865, then she served in commercial service as Glide. She was destroyed by a boiler explosion in January 1869.

References

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