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USS Poppy

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Tug:
  • Laid down, date and location unknown, as the white oak steamer Addie Douglass
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Purchased by COMO. C.K. Stribling for the Navy, 31 October 1863, at Philadelphia. PA.from J. Alderdice for $20,000
  • Commissioned USS Poppy, 10 November 1863, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • USS Poppy served as a tender to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
  • On 25 November 1863 she was with ironclad USS Roanoke off Newport News
  • On 4 February 1864 she was in Hampton Roads
  • By 17 March she was back off Newport News, again serving as a picket guard for ironclad USS Roanoke
  • On the night of 8 April a small boat succeeded in attacking frigate USS Minnesota, flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, with a torpedo, making a clean escape
  • Poppy was ordered to ram the intruder, but was unable to do so because her steam was not up
  • Poppy was then used as mail and supply tug until 17 June when she was stationed in the James River above Wilson's Wharf as a tender and ram to ironclads
  • Late in the year she became a tug in Hampton Roads and operated there and in the James River, becoming an ordnance tug at Norfolk in April 1865
  • Placed in Ordinary, 8 November 1865, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Sold at public auction at New York, 30 November 1865, to William Farrington for $7,700
    Specifications:
    Displacement 93 t.
    Length 88'
    Beam 19'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 7'3"
    Speed 8kts
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one heavy 12-pdr smoothbore
    one 12-pdr rifle
    Propulsion
    one low pressure steam engine
    one donkey steam engine, cylinder diameter 24", stroke 24"
    one flue boiler
    single screw
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