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USS Release

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Bark:
  • Laid down, date and location unknown as the bark-rigged sailing vessel Eringol
  • Purchased by the US Navy, 3 April 1855 and commissioned USS Release the same day
  • Release first sailed in June 1855 with USS Arctic as part of an Arctic expedition to search for Dr. Elisha Kane and his missing party of explorers
  • In November 1856 she sailed to Demerara, British Guiana, to pick up sugar cane cuttings for the Department of the Interior
  • In 1857 she carried supplies to Aspinwall (now Colón), Panama for the Pacific Squadron
  • In 1859 she carried stores to the Mediterranean Squadron
  • Later in 1859 she served as supply ship for the Paraguay expedition sent to Asunción to demand indemnity and apology from the Paraguayan Government for the firing on USS Water Witch in 1858
  • Release sailed to Fort Pickens, Pensacola, FL., in April 1861 to act as supply ship for the Gulf Blockading Squadron
  • She returned to New York for more stores and she next sailed for Hampton Roads, for similar duty with Atlantic Blockading Squadron
  • Release sailed for Gibraltar, 30 September 1862, to meet USS Kearsarge and then to Algeciras, Morocco to watch the Confederate raider CSS Sumter
  • From August 1863 to the end of hostilities, Release served as an ordnance storeship, based at Beaufort, N.C., for ships blockading the southern coast from Wilmington, N.C. to Norfolk, VA., either at sea delivering stores to the blockaders at their stations or at Beaufort tied up as a stores hulk.
  • Decommission, 6 October 1865, at Port Royal, S.C., and sold at public auction at New York 25 October 1865
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 327 t.
    Length 113'
    Beam 27'2"
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft 11'9"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    two 32-pdr guns
    Propulsion sail
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