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USS Huron (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Personnel Awards

Congressional Medal of Honor - Seaman James Carey, USN (1847 - ?)

Unadilla Class Screw Steam Gunboat:

Laid down as the schooner-rigged screw steamer Huron, by Paul Curtis, Boston

Launched, 21 September 1861

Commissioned USS Huron, 8 January 1862, at Boston Navy Yard, LT. John Downes in command

During the Civil War USS Huron joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in February 1862

Chased a schooner ashore, 12 April 1862, on the Georgia coast

Captured schooner Glide and cargo, 19 April off Charleston

Captured schooner Albert, 1 May and British blockade runner Cambria, 26 May 1862

Engaged batteries in the Stono River 30 May

Participated in the engagement with Fort McAllister, 29 July 1862

Captured schooner Aquilla, 4 August 1862

Together with USS Flag forced Confederate blockade runner Stonewall Jackson aground outside Charleston, 12 April 1863

Captured two additional vessels during December 1863-January 1864

Joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron later in 1864 off Wilmington, N.C.

Participated on the attacks of Fort Fisher in December 1864 and again in January 1865

Took part in the Bombardment of Forts Anderson and St. Philip in February 1865

Following the war USS Huron was assigned to the South American station

Decommissioned, 8 October 1868, at New York

Sold, 14 June 1869, at New York, re-documented as the merchantman SS D.H. Bills

Final Disposition, Sold to British owner in 1880 and presumably lost at sea in a storm March 1880.

Specifications:
Displacement 507 t.
Length 158' 8"
Beam 28'
Depth of Hold 12'
Draft 10' 6"
Speed 9 kts
Complement 114 officers and enlisted
Armament

one 11" Dahlgren smoothbore

one 20-pdr Parrott rifle

two 24-pdr howitzers

Propulsion

rigged as a two masted schooner

two 200 imp 30" stroke horizontal back-acting engines

single screw

Size	Image Description
92k	USS Huron dressed with flags, with the Italian flag at her main peak, probably during her post-Civil War service. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 53408.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
83k	Sketch by F.C. Rassek of USS Huron. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, February 1939. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 53409.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
99k	Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1901, of USS Huron. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, February 1939. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 57814.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
371k	Wood-cut engraving "BOMBARDMENT OF FORT ANDERSON", published in "Harper's Weekly" March 1865. Bombardment of Fort Fisher by USS Huron, USS Monitor and USS Montauk.	Tommy Trampp

USS Huron (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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