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USS Percy Drayton

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Sloop
  • Built as the sloop Hettiwan or Etiwan date and location unknown
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Captured by USS Ottawa while attempting to run the blockade off Charleston, S.C., 21 January 1863
  • Purchased by the US Navy from New York Prize Court, 12 November 1863
  • Commissioned, USS Percy Drayton, date unknown
  • Percy Drayton was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron as tender to blockage ships off North Edisto, S.C. until May 1865
  • Reassigned to tender duty at Port Royal in May 1865
  • Decommission and sold at Port Royal, 2 September 1865, to George Crane
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 20 t.
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion sail
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