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USS Rose (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Steamer:
  • Built as the wooden screw steamer Ai Fitch, date and location unknown
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Purchased by RADM Gregory for the Navy, 12 December 1863, from Laurence Fitch, at New York for $24,950
  • Fitted out for service as a tug and commissioned USS Rose, 8 February 1864, at New York Navy Yard, Acting Volunteer LT. Pennington in command
  • USS Rose was ordered to New Orleans to join the West Gulf Blockading Squadron
  • She departed New York soon after commissioning and proceeded to Hampton Roads where she was detained to support General McClellan's army during the Peninsular Campaign
  • On 5 May she got underway to tow the monitor USS Tecumseh up the James River to support Army forces converging on Petersburg
  • Rose remained on the river well into June, she performed towing duties, tender services, and carried ammunition and powder up from City Point
  • On 24 May she returned to Hampton Roads and prepared to resume her cruise to the Gulf of Mexico
  • Rose departed Hampton Roads, 26 July and arrived in Mississippi Sound, 5 August
  • After receiving a second gun, a heavy 12-pounder, she proceeded to Mobile Bay where she remained into September
  • She then shifted back to Mississippi Sound where she added patrol duty to her other duties
  • In December she captured a small vessel laden with turpentine.
  • In late February 1865, Rose steamed to New Orleans; repaired; and in mid-April returned to Mobile to assist in clearing channels in the bay
  • She remained in the Mobile area performing tug service into the fall, then shifted to Pensacola where, being retained for service after the Civil War, she was assigned to the navy yard
  • Rose decommissioned, date unknown
  • Struck from the Navy list, 3 March 1883
  • Sold at public auction, 20 September 1883
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 96 t.
    Length 84'
    Beam 18'2"
    Depth of Hold 7'3"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 20-pdr Parrott rifle
    one heavy 12-pdr smoothbore
    Propulsion
    steam engine(s)
    boiler(s)
    single screw
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