![]() 3 or 9 Jun 65, sold 10 Aug 65.īEN MORGAN (ex MEDIATOR). Sent 10 Oct 63 to South Atlantic Squadron for use as a storeship and later as a health ship. Mortar Flotilla ammunition carrier to July 1862, then ordnance vessel & storeship. Built by Rideout, Robbinston, Maine, 1852, purch. 20 Jan 63 as a supply ship and dispatch vessel. 10 Dec 61, purchased 6 Jan 63 and recomm. On blockade duty as a combatant in 1861, decomm. Mallory, Mystic, Conn., chartered 24 Apr 61, commiss. Named NORTH CAROLINA, she arrived at Wilmington on her first voyage on 30 Jan 61, was detained there by her southern owners, and became a blockade runner. and its service between New York and Wilmington, N.C. Built by Novelty Iron Works, New York, 1861, from a design by John Baird for H. Retained as supply steamer 1866-1867, special service 1868. NEW BERNE (ex UNITED STATES, often rendered as NEWBERN). 26 Feb 62, ordered on 29 Feb 62 fitted as transport and supply ship, recomm. Built by Harrison Loring, Boston, 1860 for service between Boston and Savannah. Supply and water vessel, transport between Key West and Ship Island. Lynn, Philadelphia, 1858 for operation between Philadelphia and Boston, purch. ![]() Williams, Greenpoint, N.Y., 1862, for China trade. Screw steamer, wood and iron hull, 660t, 163' x29.5'. Retained as storeship for Gulf Squadron 1865-1867, North Atlantic Squadron 1867-1868. for a good price owing to the demand for vessels for blockading purposes. Captured 6 May 63, purch. (16.15 kts on trials in Nov 61) but was found to be unsuited for that service and was sold to Cunard & Co. EUGÉNIE, a passenger vessel named for the French empress and with a near sister named VICTORIA, was built by Samuelson of Hull in 1861 for the Folkestone and Boulogne service of the South-Eastern Railway Co. 8 Sep 65, sold 27 Sep 65.ĮUGENIE (ex blockade runner). Seized by Confederacy at New Orleans 14 Jan 62 and by 1863 was operating under British registry as DONEGAL. Built by Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Del., 1860 as AUSTIN for Charles Morgan's New Orleans-Galveston Line. 26 Apr 65, sold 22 Jun 65.ĭONEGAL (ex blockade runner DONEGAL, ex AUSTIN). Sold 21 Sep 65, last log 22 Sep 65.ĬIRCASSIAN (ex blockade runner). BERMUDA launched 8 Jul 61, departed Hartlepool on her first run 18 Aug 61, captured 27 Apr 62, purch. According to local historian Alan Betteney, this was the second of four ships specially built for the war by Pearse Lockwood at Stockton-on-Tees, the others being CZAR (the first ship) and BAHAMA (both 1861) and THE SOUTHERNER (1863). 22 Aug 65, sold 5 Sep 65.īERMUDA (ex blockade runner). KUHN), GUARD (ex NATIONAL GUARD), and ONWARD.ĪDMIRAL. Full listings are provided for three storeships that were acquired for temporary use during the Civil War but retained in the postwar fleet: PURVEYOR (ex J. With the rapid demobilization after the Civil War, nearly all of these temporary ships were disposed of before the end of 1865 and the last were decommissioned in 1868. ![]() Some vessels, however, were acquired primarily for use as support vessels, and lists of these are presented here in the sections for AF (storeships, supply ships, and related types), AG (miscellaneous auxiliaries), and AT (large tugs, many harbor-size tugs being omitted). Most were acquired for part- or full-time use as combatant warships, and except for some sailing ships these combatants are listed on pages 86-97 of Bauer and Roberts, Register of Ships of the U.S. NAVY TEMPORARY AUXILIARY SHIPS, 1861-1865Ĭivil War Era Storeships, Supply Ships, and Related Typesĭuring the Civil War the Union Navy acquired many hundreds of civilian vessels for temporary use during the war.
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