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Charlotte (I)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Schooner
Built, date and location unknown
Launched, date unknown
Charlotte was a blockade runner captured off Mobile, AL., 10 April 1862 by
USS Kanawha
Condemned by the prize court at Boston
Purchased by the Navy 6 November 1862
Placed under command of Acting Master E. D. Bruner; and assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron
Charlotte's first station was in Choctawhatchee Bay, AL., on 27 December 1862, she sailed up river to capture the steamer Bloomer
Bloomer had been laid up since the beginning of the War, and Charlotte's men repaired her engines so that she could sail to Pensacola
The schooner continued to blockade off the East Pass of the Mississippi River were she performed reconnaissance and acted as a tender
Although the Dictionary of American Fighting Ships does say that Charlotte guarded the East Pass of the Mississippi River, the Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Navies of the War of the Rebellion lists her as being posted, along with the Bloomer at the East Pass of Choctawhatchee
She was later joined on station by Bloomer, which had been taken into the Navy
Placed out of service at Pensacola and sold there 27 April 1867
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
Displacement 70 t.
Length unknown
Beam unknown
Depth of Hull unknown
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement 14
Armament two guns
Propulsion sail
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Charlotte (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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