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Velocity

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Schooner:

Built, date and location unknown

Launched, date unknown

A British blockade-running schooner captured by USS Kensington and USS Rachel Seaman at Sabine, TX., on 25 September 1862

Purchased by the Navy from the Key West prize court, Key West, FL., 30 September 1862

Velocity (may have also been known as Fairy) joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron with the blockade off Sabine Pass

On 25 November, she assisted Kensington, Rachel Seaman, and another prize vessel, Dan, in the capture of the British schooner Maria and the Confederate schooner Course

On 21 January 1863, Velocity was taken by Confederate forces along with USS Morning Light at Sabine Pass

She is believed to have continued to serve as a Confederate gunboat,

One of her guns was recognized by Union naval officers when captured two years later in the fast Confederate privateer schooner Anna Dale (q.v.) by USS Pinola, 19 February 1865, in Pass Cavallo, TX.

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 87 t.
Length unknown
Beam unknown
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement unknown

Armament two 12-pdr howitzers

Propulsion Sail

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Velocity
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