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USS Buckthorn (I)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Screw Steamer:
Built in 1863 as the screw steamer Signal at East Haddam, CT.
Launched, date unknown
Purchased by RADM Gregory for the Navy, from George W. Jewett, at New York, N.Y>22 December 1863
Commissioned, USS Buckthorn, 7 April 1864, at New York, Acting Volunteer LT. Washington Godfrey in command
Buckthorn served with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron during the Civil War and participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay,5 August 1864
She acted as a tender for the fleet and was also used as a dispatch vessel throughout her career
After the Civil War she served at Pensacola Navy Yard until laid up in 1868
Sold at Pensacola, FL., 7 September 1869
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
Displacement 128 t.
Length 87'
Beam 22'
Depth of Hold 7'7"
Draft unknown
Speed 8.5 kts
Complement unknown
Armament
one 30-pdr Parrott rifle
one light 12-pdr smoothbore-replaced with a second heavy 12-pdr smoothbore 31 December 1865
one heavy 12-pdr smoothbore
Propulsion
one steam engine
one boiler
single screw
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Buckthorn (I)
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