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USS Clyde (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Side-wheel Steamer:
  • Built in 1861 as the side-wheel steamer Neptune by Robert Napier, East Yard, Govan, Scotland.
  • Launched in 1861
  • Captured running the blockade, 4 June 1863, by USS Lackawanna and sent to Key West for condemnation and onward to New York
  • Surveyed, appraised and purchased by the Navy Department, at New York
  • Commissioned USS Neptune, at New York, 29 July 1863, Acting Master A. A. Owens in command
  • Name changed to USS Clyde, at Washington, D.C., 11 August 1863
  • USS Clyde was assigned to East Gulf Blockading Squadron at Key West, arriving in that port 13 September
  • Her duties consisted of patrolling the coastal and inland waters of western Florida and among the Florida Keys Clyde captured the schooner Amaranth 27 September 1863, and participated in two boat expeditions up the Suwanee and Waccasassa rivers
  • Decommissioned, 17 August 1865, at Philadelphia Navy Yard
  • Sold at New York, 25 October 1865
  • Final Disposition, believed to be wrecked in early December 1865 at Indian River, FL.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 200 t.
    Length 161'
    Beam 25'
    Depth of Hold 14.7'
    Draft 8.2'
    Speed 9 kts.
    Complement 67
    Armament two 24-pdr Dahlgren howitzers
    Propulsion
    boiler(s)
    steam engine(s), 181x25x14.7x6.2
    two sidewheels
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    Clyde 550k The Side-wheel Steamer USS Clyde tied up in port, circa 1863-1865. Note this former blockade runner's pivot-mounted Dahlgren howitzer. The original photographic print was mounted on a carte de visite.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55220, donation of Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, August 1945     		Robert Hurst
    USS Clyde (I)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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