 {|    |} the first uss suwanee was a 3rd-rate gunboat commissioned by the union navy in its struggle against the confederate states of america in the american civil war. commissioned late in the war, suwanee spent several weeks searching for the confederate raider css shenandoah without success. suwanee was eventually wrecked off british columbia in 1868. ==construction and design== suwanee&mdash;a double-ended, iron-hulled, sidewheel-propelled gunboat&mdash;was built for the [[u.
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