The USS Patapsco was a 1335-ton Passaic class monitor built at Wilmington, Delaware and commissioned January 1862. It served in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off South Carolina and Georgia and took part in a Naval attack on Fort McAllister March 3, 1863.
In April of 1863, it took part in the attack on Fort Sumter and was hit 47 times. In January 1865, the ship struck a mine in Charleston harbor and sank in less than a minute with 62 of her crew.
Watch Those Confederate Mines Also. --Old B-R'er
No comments:
Post a Comment