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Uss Iris (1847) | align="center" colspan="2"| | | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career | style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| United States Navy Jack | | uilt: | 1847 | | urchased: | 1847 | | ommissioned: | 25 October 1847 | | ecommissioned: | 16 December 1848 | | ate: | sold, destroyed by fire 1856 | | truck: | | | olspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 388 tons | | ength: | 145 ft | | eam: | 27 ft | | raft: | 9 ft 9 in | | ropulsion: | | | peed: | | | ange: | | | epth: | | | omplement: | 70 | | rmament: | 1 32-pdr. | The first USS ''Iris'' was a wooden steamer in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War. Propelled by radial paddle wheels, Iris built at New York in 1847 and purchased there by the Navy in the same year. She commissioned at New York Navy Yard 25 October 1847, Commander Stephen B. Wilson in command. The next day Iris departed New York Harbor for Vera Cruz, Mexico, where she arrived 11 December. With the exception of a brief visit to Mobile, Alabama, in February 1848 and a voyage to Pensacola, Florida, in September, Iris remained on duty in the vicinity of Vera Cruz for the next year. During the closing months of the Mexican-American War, she assisted in maintaining the blockade of the coast of Mexico and protected the Army's water communications. Thereafter she vigilantly protected United States interests in that volatile area lest trouble break out anew. Iris departed Vera Cruz 8 November and arrived Norfolk, Virginia 16 December. She decommissioned there 16 December 1848 and was sold soon thereafter. She redocumented as Osprey 9 March 1849, being destroyed by fire at Kingston, Jamaica, 18 April 1856. See USS Iris for other ships of this name. Iris 1
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