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USS Dumbarton

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Sidewheel Steamer:

Built at Glasgow, Scotland in 1863 as the iron sidewheel steamer SS Thistle

Operated as a blockade runner during the Civil War, making one successful round-trip voyage between Bermuda and Wilmington, N.C., March-May 1864

Captured by USS Fort Jackson at Wilmington, 4 June 1864

Purchased by the Union Navy from the Boston prize court, 20 July 1864

Commissioned, USS Dumbarton, 13 August 1864, Acting Volunteer LT. H. Brown in command

During the Civil War USS Dumbarton

Searched for the Confederate raider CSS Tallahassee along the Atlantic coast

Joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, at Beaufort, N.C., until 6 December 1864

Served as flagship of the James River Squadron, 17 February to 27 March 1865

Decommissioned, 27 March 1865, at Washington Navy Yard.

Placed in ordinary at New York Navy Yard in November 1865

Struck from the Naval Register and sold, 15 October 1867

Placed in commercial service briefly as SS Dumbarton

Changed registry to British, given a new rig and engines in the months after she left Navy ownership

During 1868-1870 she operated under the name City of Quebec

Final Disposition, sunk in a collision while in Canadian waters, on either 1 May 1870 or 28 April 1870

Specifications:
Displacement 636 t.
Length 204'
Beam 29'
Depth unknown
Draft 10"
Speed 10 kts
Complement unknown
Armament

two 12-pdr howitzers

two 32-pdrs

Propulsion steam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	45k	Artwork by Erik Heyl, 1957, for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume III. of the blockade runner SS Thistle. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo #: NH 67029		Tommy Trampp
	46k	Artwork by Erik Heyl, 1957, for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume III. depicts ex-USS Dumbarton as SS City of Quebec as she appeared in merchant service after 1868. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo #: NH 66414		Tommy Trampp

USS Dumbarton
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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