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USS Home

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Steamer:
  • built in 1862 as the wood hull steamer Key West at Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Purchased for the U.S. Navy by RADM. F.H. Gregory at New York, 14 August 1863
  • Delivered, 18 August 1863, to New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Commissioned USS Home, 21 August 1863, at New York Navy Yard, Acting Master W. H. Garfield in command
  • USS Home was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
  • She sailed after commissioning for Charleston towing monitor USS Lehigh
  • Home was assigned by RADM. Dahlgren as a rest ship, to which the exhausted crews of the steaming monitors could retire after the fierce bombardments of early September
  • She remained off Charleston with periodic trips to Port Royal for repairs until July 1864, when she was assigned to act as a hospital ship inside the bar at Charleston
  • She continued her combination blockader-hospital ship service until mid-1865, when she took up lightship duties in the harbor
  • During this period Home also sent members of her crew ashore on boat expeditions in the Charleston area, notably 5 March 1865 when an important reconnaissance of Charleston harbor obstructions was effected.
  • Home returned to the New York Navy Yard in August 1865 and decommissioned 24 August 1865
  • Sold at public auction, 5 September 1865, redocumented SS Key West, she returned to merchant service
  • Final Disposition, stranded and lost off Cape Hatteras 12 October 1870
    Specifications:
    Displacement 725 t.
    Length 165'
    Beam 20'9"
    Depth of Hold 11'
    Draft 13'6"
    Speed 6kts
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 24-pdr howitzer
    one 12-pdr howitzer rifle
    Propulsion
    two horizontal steam engines, cylinder 32", stroke 30"
    one boilers, four furnaces
    twin propellers
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