page_title: USS Cricket (1862)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Cricket (1862)
caption_attribution_description: English: USS Cricket (1863-1865, "Tinclad" # 6) Tied up at a Western Rivers city, during the last years of the Civil War, with a barge astern and a boat alongside. Note the decorative star suspended between her smokestacks.
context_page_description: USS Cricket (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
  Cricket—armed with six 24-pounder howitzers—was used by the Union Navy as a bombardment gunboat used to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy and to bombard riverside fortifications as required.
context_section_description: USS Cricket (1862) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
  Cricket—armed with six 24-pounder howitzers—was used by the Union Navy as a bombardment gunboat used to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy and to bombard riverside fortifications as required.
caption: USS Cricket (1863-1865, "Tinclad" # 6) Tied up at a Western Rivers city, during the last years of the Civil War, with a barge astern and a boat alongside. Note the decorative star suspended between her smokestacks.
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