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USS Sea Bird

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Schooner
  • Built, date and location unknown
  • Captured by Union side wheel steamer USS DeSoto, 13 May 1863
  • Purchased by the Navy, 12 July 1863, from the Key West prize court
  • Commissioned in late July or early August at Key West, Acting Master Charles P. Clark in command
  • Sea Bird cruised in the Gulf of Mexico seeking blockade runners
  • On 15 October, USS Sea Bird, USS Fox and USS Two Sisters helped USS Honduras pursue British steamer Mail off St. Petersburg, FL., after a three-hour chase
  • In July 1864, Sea Bird and three other small sailing ships carried Union troops and landed them for a raid on Brookville, FL.
  • After disembarking the soldiers, Sea Bird and USS Ariel proceeded to Bayport, FL., where a landing party captured a quantity of cotton and burned the customs house before returning to Anclote Keys
  • On 21 October, Sea Bird captured British schooner Lucy off Anclote Keys
  • Active until the end of the Civil War, Sea Bird took her last prizes, 11 April 1865, seizing sloops Florida and Annie off Crystal River, FL., destroying both
  • Sea Bird was decommissioned and sold at public auction at Key West to W. F. Pitcher, 28 June 1865
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 58 t.
    Length unknown 59'8"
    Beam unknown 18'4"
    Depth of Hull 7'
    Draft unknown 7'6"
    Speed unknown
    Complement 15
    Armament one 12-pdr howitzer
    Propulsion Sail
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