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USS Young Rover
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Bark Rigged Auxiliary Steamer:
Built in 1860 by James O. Curtis, Medford MA. for lphens Hardy & Co., Boston for East India trade
Launched, date unknown
Purchased by a board composed of J.M. Forbes et al, 27 July 1861, for the Navy at Boston, MA. for $27,500
Fitted out at the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned USS Young Rover, 10 September 1861, Acting Master I. B. Studley in command
USS Young Rover was assigned to duty with the Atlantic Blockading Squadron
She arrived in Hampton Roads, VA., 17 September and was soon dispatched to blockade duty off the Carolinas
On 1 November, she brought help and stood by during the rescue of a Marine Corps battalion and the ship's company of the chartered steamer Governor which soon thereafter sank
in a heavy gale off the southern Atlantic coast.
Later that month, Young Rover returned to Hampton Roads and blockaded the mouth of the York River.
The warship operated out of Hampton Roads into the spring of 1862 serving as a unit of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron which was laboring to seal off the Confederate coast
On 17 April 1862, Young Rover was reassigned to the Potomac River Flotilla to guard against the traffic in supplies to the South between Maryland and Virginia.
On 14 May 1862, she received orders to join the East Gulf Blockading Squadron at Key West, FL.
She served briefly off the South Pass at the mouth of the Apalachicola River in far northwestern Florida and then settled down to a summer's worth of duty blockading St. Marks on Apalachee
Bay.
She returned to Key West early in October and, on the 11th, received orders to proceed to Philadelphia for repairs
At the conclusion of the yard work, she resumed duty along the Atlantic coast from the base at Hampton Roads and remained so employed during the winter of 1862 and 1863.
After repairs at Baltimore in April and May of she returned to Hampton Roads where she began duty as guardship as a consequence of her deteriorating sailing and her almost nonexistent
steaming abilities
That assignment, conducted at various locations in the southern Chesapeake Bay-Fortress Monroe, Hampton Roads, and at the mouths of the James and York Rivers occupied her until the fall of
1864.
On 20 November she received orders to proceed to the Delaware breakwater, there to protect American shipping entering and leaving the Delaware.
She departed Hampton Roads, 1 December, and arrived at the mouth of the Delaware several days later.
For the remainder of the war, Young Rover served on the Delaware River.
Following the end of the war Young Rover was decommissioned at Boston Navy Yard
Sold at auction, 22 June 1865, at the Boston Navy Yard to Mr. Curtis for $19,250
Final Disposition, wrecked 10 miles S of Monefa Reef near Zanzibar, 29 June 1866
Specifications:
Displacement 418t.
Length 141'
Beam 28'1"
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft 11', loaded
Speed 13kts
Complement unknown
Armament
1 May 1863 - one 12-pdr Sawyer rifle, four 32-pdrs 42cwt
Propulsion (Auxillary)
main steam engine, diameter of cylices 50"
auxiliary steam engine, diameter of cylinder 1'6", stroke 2'
boiler(s)
screw(s)
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Young Rover
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Last Updated 19 August 2022