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USS Verbena

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Harbor Tug:
  • Built by Lawrence & Foulks, Brooklyn, NY
  • Completed as screw tug Ino, 1864
  • Purchased by Navy at New York from Thomas M. Wheeler for $27,000, 07 June 1864
  • Commissioned USS Verbena at New York Navy Yard, 11 July 1864
  • Served in Potomac Flotilla, 1864
  • Decommisioned at Washington Navy Yard, 13 June 1865
  • Sold at public auction at Washington by William L. Wall & Co. to W.E. Gladwick for $8,950, 20 July 1865
  • Documented as merchant tug Game Cock (ON 85186), 09 September 1865
  • Renamed Edward G. Burgess, 07 July 1885
  • Final disposition, abandoned, 1900
    Specifications:
    Hull wood
    Displacement 104 tons
    Length 74' 10"
    Beam 17' 6"
    Draft 8' 10"
    Speed 12 mph
    Complement 20
    Armament one 20-pdr Parrott rifle, one light 12-pdr SB
    Propulsion one overhead cylinder condensing engine (24" x 20"), one screw
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