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{{short description|Gunboat of the United States Navy}}
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|Ship country=United States
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|Ship name=USS ''Pequot''
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The first '''USS ''Pequot''''' was a  wooden screw [[gunboat]] of the [[Union Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. The ship was launched on 4 June 1863 by the [[Boston Navy Yard]]; and commissioned there on 15 January 1864, Lt. Comdr. [[Stephen P. Quackenbush]] in command. The ship was named for the [[Pequot]] Indian tribe resident in Southern [[Connecticut]], members of the [[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] language grouping.
==Service history==
The new gunboat departed [[Boston]] on 5 February and joined the [[North Atlantic Blockading Squadron]]. She captured British blockade runner ''Don'' off [[Beaufort, North Carolina]], on 4 March, and helped the Army beat back a Confederate attack on [[Wilson's Wharf]], [[James River (Virginia)|James River]], Virginia, on 24 May. Blockade duty occupied her until she participated in the [[First Battle of Fort Fisher|first]] and [[Second Battle of Fort Fisher|the second]] battles on Fort Fisher which protected [[Wilmington, North Carolina]], on 24 February 1864 and 13 January 1865, closing that last major Confederate port. She followed this victory by helping capture [[Fort Anderson (North Carolina)|Fort Anderson]], North Carolina.
==Post-war==
After the end of the Civil War, she was [[Ship decommissioning|decommissioned]] at the [[New York Navy Yard]] on 3 June 1865. She remained there in reserve until she was sold to Haiti in 1869, where the ship was renamed ''Terreur''. In December of that year, she was captured by rebels. ''Terreur'' was then used to blow up the presidential palace by hitting the barrels of gunpowder stored within.<ref>Robert L. Scheina, ''Latin America: A Naval History, 1810&ndash;1987'' (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1987), 39.</ref>
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* {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p4/pequot-i.htm}}
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