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Norfolk

 

(ScGbt: dp. 166; l. 106'; b. 21'; dph. 8'; dr. 5'; a. 1 9", 1 32-pdr.; cl. Hampton)

 

Norfolk was a sister to Portsmouth, paralleling her progress in Gosport (Norfolk) Navy Yard. Both of these early "Maury Gunboats" were burned on the ways to escape capture by entering Federal forces, 10 May 1862.