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USS Trefoil (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Steamer:
  • Built in 1864 as a wooden-hulled screw steamer by clipper ship designer Donald McKay
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Purchased for the Navy by RADM Stringham, 4 February 1865 at Boston MA. from Donack McKay for $118,070
  • Commissioned USS Trefoil, 1 March 1865, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA., Acting Master Charles C. Wells in command
  • USS Trefoil proceeded south to the Gulf of Mexico and arrived at Mobile Bay, 24 March
  • She served in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under RADM. Henry Knox Thatcher through the end of the Civil War, operating mainly as a dispatch boat between Pensacola and Mobile
  • In July 1865, she returned north to the Boston Navy Yard where she was decommissioned, 30 August 1865
  • Placed in ordinary in 1866
  • Sold tender after auction by COMO. J. Rodgers 28 May 1867 at Boston Navy Yard to Mr. L. Litchfield for $11,500
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 370 t.
    Length 145'7"
    Beam 23'9"
    Depth of Hold 11'2"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement 44
    Armament
    one 30-pdr Parrott rifle
    one 12-pdr howitzer
    Propulsion
    two steam engines
    two boilers
    twin screws
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