
USS Santiago de Cuba was a side-wheel steamship acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America
This model of the USS Santiago de Cuba is a 1/600 scale a side-wheel gun boat. She had two 20-pounder Parrott rifles and eight 32-pounder guns.
She was 229’ long x 38’ in beam, displaced about 1,567 tons, had a maximum speed of about 14 kts and a crew of 114 officers and men.