USS Crocus: Shortest Navy Career?

From Wikipedia

In the last post, I mentioned this ship sinking and had never heard of it before so you know what that means. I did not find out much about it for obvious reasons as it turned out.

Commissioned 31 July 1863 and sank 17 August 1863, possibly one of the shortest U.S. Navy careers ever. A whole 17 days in the Union Navy. I'd sure never heard of it.

The ship cleared New York City August 14th and ran aground by Bodie Island (northern-most portion of the Outer Banks) on August 17th (as mentioned in the previous post) and was totally wrecked.

The ship was 79 feet long and mounted two cannons.

--Old B-R'er