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USS Currituck (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Screw Steamer:

A screw-steamer, purchased, 20 September 1861, at New York as Seneca

Renamed Currituck and fitted for service at New York Navy Yard

Commissioned USS Currituck, 27 February 1862, Acting Master W. F. Shankland in command

Currituck towed USS Monitor to Hampton Roads, departing New York 6 March arriving Hampton Roads, 8 March 1862

USS Currituck was assigned to the Potomac Flotilla

After towing Monitor, Currituck spent her entire service in the Chesapeake Bay and tributary waters cooperating with Army movements ashore

Decommissioned, 4 August 1865 at Washington, D.C.

Sold 15 September 1865

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 195 t.
Length 120'
Beam 23'
Depth 7' 6"
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement 52
Armament

four 32-pdr guns

one 20-pdr rifle

Propulsion steam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	470k	Pencil drawing of USS Currituck during Civil War. US Library of Congress Photo #214084/CT LC-USZC4-5247, May 1962.		Steve Eakin

USS Currituck (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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