Monitors of Russian Uragan-Class

They were constructed two each at five different shipyards.

NEW ADMIRALITY YARD

Uragan--  Laid up and decommissioned  1900

Tifon--  Laid up 1900.  Hulked as mine depot 1909.  Broken up in the 1920s.

GALERNIY ISLAND YARD

Strelets--  Laid up 1900.    Hulked as floating workshop late 1910s.    Hull remains to present day.

Edinorog--  Laid up 1900.  Hulked as a mine depot 1909.  Broken up in the 1950s.  Served in Vladivostock.

CARR AND MACPHERSON

Bronenosets--    Hulked as coal barge and decommissioned in 1900.

Latnik--  Hulked as coal barge and decommissioned 1900.

NEVSKY FACTORY

Lava--    Laid up 1900.  Hulked as hospital barge 1911.  Broken up in the 1920s.

Perun--  Laid up 1900.  Sank 1921.    Broken up 1925.

COCKERILL & CO.

Veschun--  Hulked as a coal barge and decommissioned 1900.  Involved in accident with Russian monitor Admiral Chichagov.

Koldun--    Hulked as a coal barge and decommissioned 1900.

--Old B-Runner

The Russian Uragan Monitor Class-- Part 2

Russian Naval Architect N. Artseulov was sent to the U.S. to join Russian Naval Attachee Captain  Stepan Stepanovich Lessovsky to help assess first-hand the advantages and disadvantages of American monitors.

On 11 March 1863, the Russian Admiralty approved a program to build ten monitors  to the American monitor Passaic-class plans.  The decision to use the American plans was based on lack of time, money and inexperience in building ironclads.

A larger monitor with two turrets, the Smerch, was also approved and launched in 1864.

In their first eight years of operation, three different kinds of artillery pieces were used.  An order was placed with the Krupp ordnance factories in Germany for nine inch smoothbores which was used in the monitors at first.  In 1864, artillery specialist  Filemon  N. Pestich returned from America with technology  for the production of  15-inch Dahlgren guns of the type used on the American Passaic monitors and a factory was established to make them.

The first 15-inch Dahlgrens became available for the Uragan monitors in 1869.  Unlike the American ships, the Uragan ones did not use a mixed armament of 15-inch and a smaller one.  New 9-inch breech-loading rifled guns were placed on the ships beginning in 1973.

As the monitors were hulked in 1900, these guns were removed and later served in Peter the Great's Naval Fortress.

--Old B-Runner

'Heirlooms, Antiques, and Militaria' program at CSS Neuse

From the Neuse News, Kinston, North Carolina.

Well, its too late now, but glad to see the CSS Neuse doing things to keep in the public eye and increase attendance.

This past Saturday, August 28, from 10 am to 4 pm you can learn about those old things grandpa and grandma left you at the CSS Neuse Interpretive Center in Kinston.

This will be handled by the site's  staff members and friends who have a variety of historical interests.  they are well-versed in firearms from the 18thcenturythrough World War II.

They even say that is they don't know what it is, they will check their reference works and online resources.  They can also give you tips on how to best restore and preserve the items.  In addition, they are always looking for items from Eastern North Carolina during the war.

The CSS Neuse is the only remaining  commissioned Confederate ironclad above water.  It was part of a new technology that the Confederacy used to combat the superior manpower and firepower of the Union Navy.

The shop's hull remains.

The CSS Neuse Center is a part of the Division of State Historic Sites in the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

--Old B-Runner

The Russian Monitor Uragan-Class-- Part 1

It is interesting that Russia is the only other major naval power to have monitors along the design of the Union Navy.

From Wikipedia.

The Uragan-class was a class on monitors built for the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy.  The ships were built to the plans of the American Passaic-Class of monitors.  A total of ten different ships were constructed  at five different shipyards in Saint Petersburg, all entering Russian service in 1865.  They were among the first Russian ironclads.

These ships were built in response to fears of a standoff with Britain and a repeat of the Crimean War.  Only this time with Britain's intentions on the Russian capital at Saint Petersburg.

Americans mistook Russian defensive moves as an indicator of support for the Union cause in the Civil War.

A Russian monitor program was started as soon as news of the  Battle of Hampton Roads reached Europe.

The Novgorod, which I wrote about last week was another effort of the Russian Navy to build a monitor.

--Old B-Russian

There Were Other Russian Monitors as Well, and These Looked More Loke Union Monitors Than the Novgorod

From Wikipedia.

List of Russian and Soviet Monitors

Uragan Class   10 ships

Smerch

Charodeika Class   2 ships

Admiral Lazarev Class   2 ships

Admiral Spiridov Class  2 ships

Petr  Veliky

Novgorod  2 ships

Taifun Class

These ships much more closely resembled the monitors we know from the Union Navy.

--Old B-Runner

Russian Monitor Novgorod's Career-- Part 5

The Treaty of Paris ended the Crimean War (1853-1856).  It was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain and France.  (Fort Fisher has been called the Malakoff Tower of the South, named after an impressive Russian fortification in this war.)

As part of the agreement, Russia was allowed just six small corvettes on the Black Sea.  But, they had to be built elsewhere in St. Petersburg, disassembled and then shipped to the Black Sea for reassembly.  This is how the Novgorod was built.

It was laid down in 1871 and wasn't completed and commissioned on the Black Sea until 1874.  Modifications were made before the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) where the Novgorod was assigned the defense of Odessa.  She did not see action.

After the war, the Novgorod made a cruise to the Romanian town of Sulina on the Danube River and then stationed in Sevastopol throughout the 1880s and made  short cruises every summer.  In 1892, it was reclassified as a coast defense monitor.  By the following year, her  hull and machinery were in extremely bad condition.

She was stricken from the Navy List in 1903 and used as a store ship.  In 1908, it was offered for sale to Bulgaria, but the offer was not taken.  Finally, the Novgorod was sold for scrap in 1911.

The main armament of the Novrogord was not in a turret, but out in the open.

She had a sister ship, the Vitse-admiral Popov which was a little bigger and not as round with heavier cannons.  Like the Novgorod, it didn't have much success as a warship.  Length 126 feet 10 inches, beam 117 feet 8 inches, mounting 12-inch rifle  muzzle-loading guns.

--Old B-Runner

The Monitor Novgorod's Career-- Part 4: The Frisbee Monitor

From Wikipedia.

STATISTICS

Laid Down:  29 December 1871

Launched:  2 June 1873

Completed:  1874

Decommissioned:  1 May 1903

Length:  101 feet  (Notice the length and beam were the same.)

Beam:  101 feet

Draught:  13 feet 6 inches

Armament:  two 11-inch rifled muzzle loaders

--Old B-Runner

Russian Monitors, the Novgorod-- Part 3: Worst Warship Ever Built?

With its low 18-inch freeboard to the waterline (height above the water) iron-armored hull and central rotating  barbette mounted pair of 11-inch rifled cannons, the Novgorod was essentially like a traditional monitor, but with its overall circular shape, there was nothing else like it anywhere.

Traditional American monitors had their guns mounted in a protective turret, while the Novgorod's were out in the open, en barbette so to speak.

To move this "colossal frying pan" it had six engines mounted at the stern, each connected to its own propeller.  Even with these huge engines the Novgorod could only travel at top speed of 7.5 mph. And steering it was another thing altogether.

And, then there was bad weather to worry about.

Eventually, the Novgorod found its niche as a coastal defense ship, essentially a floating battery.

Some still say the Novgorod and its sister ship, the Vitse-Adniral Popov were two of the worst warships ever built.  But they could be used as coast defense.

--Old Novgorod

Russian Monitors, the Novgorod-- Part 2

Monitors were generally low -draught ships which made them excellent for rivers and inland waters.  However, this worked against them on the high seas.  Russia, in the late 1860s became very  concerned with protecting their river systems and monitors seemed to fit the bill.

But, all that armor  and cannons meant the ship would draw more draught, which would be a problem in the shallower rivers.

But Scottish shipbuilder John Elder  figured that if you increase the beam of a ship you could carry more of everything with little or no increase in the draught.

Imperial Russian Navy Rear Admiral Andrei Alexandrovich Popov took this idea and really ran with it.  He took the concept of widening all the way up to where the ship's shape actually became a circle.

After testing  the concept with models and a small 24-foot diameter ship and then a full-sized ship was authorized and construction on the Novgorod started in late 1871, with the ship having a 100-foot diameter., displacing  2,531 tons and having a draft of only  13 and a half feet.

--Old B-Runner

Russian Monitors, Yes, There Were Russian Monitors and One Really Weird One

Well, since I have been writing about the USS Nantucket and monitors, I saw this article today and found it of great interest.

From the August 18, 2021, Jalopnik  "Russia once built a very weird circular warship" by Jason Torchinsky.

The Union Navy was not the only world navy with monitors.  It turns out that Russia even experimented with monitors, at least some that looked like  U.S. monitors and, then, there was this one named the Novgorod.  This ship could well be described as a floating frisbee.  Very, but some, looking ship.

I was completely unaware of these Russian monitors until now.

The Novgorod was essentially an ironclad monitor based on the USS Monitor.  Loosely, very loosely.

According to Torchinsky, the Monitor was a revolution in naval design.  It was a solely steam-driven warship,  nearly completely made of iron with a powered, revolving turret.  Most of the ship was under the waterline and, it is worth noting,  the first ship to have real flushing toilets.  (I also did not know that.)

The Monitor was actually the first of all modern warships.  The basic design was copied all over the world, including Russia which had the Uragan-class monitors.

--Old B-Runner

The Second Battle of Fort Sumter-- Part 2: The Monitors Took a Beating To Say the Least

The USS Weehawken sustained  fifty-three hits during 40 minutes of action, the Passaic had thirty-five hits and had her  11-inch gun knocked out.  The USS Patapsco lost headway and became a sitting duck, receiving forty-seven hits.

After heavy fighting over the whole afternoon, with all the federal monitors receiving a severe beating,  the Keokuk ran ahead of the  crippled Nahant and was blasted by more than ninety hits from a range of  less than 600 yards from Fort Sumter.

Anchored overnight, it filled with water and sank the next morning.  The Keokuk's guns were salvaged by the  Rebels, who mounted them in what is now Battery Park in Charleston and used them during future operations.

"The monitors are not intended to lose life except by sinking as a general rule," Du Pont lamented to his wife.  "  They are iron coffins; once perforated they go down."

The quest to capture Charleston  would be delayed indefinitely as it now turned out.

--Old B-Runner

The Second Battle of Fort Sumter, Union Attack September 7, 1863-- Part 1

From "The Longest Night:  A Military History of the Civil War" by David J. Eicher.

The USS Nantucket was involved in this battle.

On September 8, 1863, a squadron of nine Union ships including the monitors Catskill, Nahant, Montauk, Nantucket, Passaic, Patapsco and Weehawken, as well as the  ironclad gunboats USS New Ironsides and USS Keokuk.

It was iron against masonry.

By noon, Admiral Du Pont signaled to attack, but it wasn't until 3 p.m. that the ships opened on Fort Sumter.  The Weehawken took the lead, followed by the other monitors and became heavily engaged when a torpedo explodes under her and lifted her momentarily.

Artillery fire from Forts Sumter and Moultrie splashed about the ships and struck them, doing considerable damage throughout the afternoon.

--Old B-Runner

USS Nantucket Statistics-- Part 2: A 15-inch and an 11-inch Smoothbores in Turret

DRAFT:  10 feet 6 inches

PROPULSION:  2 Martin boilers, 1-shaft Ericsson vibrating  lever engine, 320 ihp.

SPEED:  7 knots

COMPLEMENT:  75 officers and enlisted

ARMAMENT:  one 15-inch smoothbore, one 11-ince Dahlgren smoothbore

ARMOR:  Iron

Side:  5-3 inch

Turret;  11 inches

Deck:  1-inch

It is too bad that one of the Civil War monitors was not kept to be used as a museum shop for future generations.

--Old B-Runner

USS Nantucket Statistics-- Part 1

HISTORY

BUILDER:  Atlantic Iron Works,  Boston, Massachusetts

LAUNCHED:  6 December 1862

COMMISSIONED:  26 February 1863

 RENAMED:  USS Medusa  15 June 1869 //  Renamed USS Nantucket 10 August 1869

FATE:   Sold, 14 November 1900

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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

CLASS AND TYPE:   Passaic-class Monitor

DISPLACEMENT:  1.875 tons

LENGTH:    200 feet overall

BEAM:  46 feet

Old B-Runner

USS Nantucket, Monitor-- Part 2: A Long Career After the War

On September  15, 1863, the Nantucket captured the  British steamer Jupiter at sea.  (Monitors were fairly slow.  I'd sure like to know how that happened.)

The Nantucket again fought the Charleston forts on May  14, 1864 and remained on blockade duty until the end of the war.

Decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on June 24, 1865, she remained in ordinary for a decade.  Renamed the Medusa  15 June 1869, she took back the name Nantucket 10 August 1869.  (A lot of U.S. ships changed their names during that period.  Again, I wonder why?)

Transferred to the Portsmouth Navy Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, in 1875, the Nantucket was twice briefly recommissioned 29 July to 12 December 1882 and 16 June to 6 October 1884, and operated along the northern east coast of the U.S..

Sher again lay in ordinary in New York until turned over to the North Carolina Naval Militia in 1895.  During the Spanish-American War the ship was stationed at Port Royal, South Carolina.

After being condemned as no longer fit for service, the Nantucket was sold at auction in Washington, D.C., on 14 November 1900.  A total of five bids were received for the vessel, with the winning bid of $13,111 made by Thomas Butler & Co. of Boston.  

The auction was said to have drawn a lot of interest because of the historic nature of the vessel.

--Old B-Runner

USS Nantucket (1862) Ironclad Monitor-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

The first ship to bear the name Nantucket in the U.S. Navy was a Passaic-class coastal monitor launched 6 December 1862 by Atlantic Iron Works, Boston, Massachusetts.  It was commissioned  26 February 1863, Commander Donald McNeil Fairfax in command.

Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,  the Nantucket participated  in the attack on the Confederate forts in Charleston Harbor 7 April 1863.  Struck 51 times during the valiant but unsuccessful assault, the ship was repaired at Port Royal and returned to  Charleston to support the Union Army on Morris Island.

She engaged Fort Wagner on 16, 17, 18 and 24 July.  The famed attack of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment took place on July 18.  That would be the black regiment made famous in the movie "Glory."

--Old B-Runner

The U.S. Navy's Newest Ship, the USS Nantucket (LCS-27) Christened Saturday. The First USS Nantucket Was a Monitor.

From the August 11, 2021, Boston Globe "USS Nantucket ready for action, carrying out naval legacy which began in Civil War" by Travis Anderson.

It was formally christened  Saturday at a ceremony  on the Menominee River  in Marinette, Wisconsin.  It is a Freedom class Littoral Combat  Ship (LCS).  The new ship is very fast, automated and lethal, equipped with rolling airframe missiles and a Mark 110 gun, capable of firing 220 rounds per minute.

It is the third U.S. Navy ship named Nantucket.

The first one was a Passaic-class coastal monitor commissioned on February 26, 1863.  It was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and participated in the attacks on the Confederate forts, including Fort Sumter, defending Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

During that mission, the Nantucket was struck 51 times.  Battered, but no irreparably damaged, the ship was repaired and returned to duty.  It returned to Charleston and took part in operations against Norris Island.

The second USS Nantucket was a wooden lightship built in 1907 for the Lighthouse Service and transferred to the Navy in 1917.  During World War I, it continued its duty warning ships of the dangerous Nantucket Shoals and aided in guarding the nearby waters against U-boat attacks.

I Have to Admit to Have Never Heard of This Monitor Before.  --Old B-R'er

J.R.M. Mullany at Battle of Mobile Bay-- Part 4: The End of the Battle

The fight for Mobile Bay was soon over at this point.  With the USS Oneida and USS Galena out of action,  the rest of Farragut's fleet took the CSS Gaines and CSS Salma out of action and then concentrated on the Confederate ironclad CSS Tennessee.  

Ramming the ship failed to stop it, but the concentrated fore of the heavy guns of the three remaining monitors eventually put  the Tennessee out of action and a gravely wounded Buchanan was forced to surrender.

The USS Galena finished out her days quietly.  After three months of duty with the East Gulf Blockading Squadron and four months of repairs,  it returned to  river duty in the Eastern Theater, where its career had begun as an ironclad.

In 1872, a decade after her launch in Mystic, Connecticut, the ironclad-turned-gunboat  was broken up at Norfolk Navy Yard.

--Old B-Runner

J.R.M. Mullany at Battle of Mobile Bay-- Part 3: A Regular Pounding

Weighing the risk of remaining where they were under fire of Fort Morgan or proceeding and taking chances with the Confederate torpedoes (Mines), Farragut too the lead, supposedly uttered his famous quote, "Damn the torpedoes!  Full speed ahead.'  The USS Hartford surged ahead and the other ships in his line followed.

At the rear of the column, Commander J.R.M. Mullany's USS Oneida was the ship on the Fort Morgan side of the USS Galena.  As it was now the closest ship, the fort turned its fire on it.  It suffered severe damage to its steering gear and several fires broke out below decks.

The two ships were almost out of range of the fort, when a 7-inch rifle shell passed through the  chain armor on the ship's side and exploded in the starboard boiler at the water line.  Nearly all of the  below decks were scalded to death by escaping steam.

Within an hour the Oneida had lost  the use of at least two of its guns and a shot from the CSS Tennessee knocked out a third and severely wounded  Mullany.

Fortunately at this stage of the battle, Farragut's ironclads had driven the Tennessee back and saved both the Oneida and Galena from further mauling.

Commander Clark Wells of the Galena used his powerful  800-hp engine to move the much heavier Oneida to deeper and safer waters.

--Old B-Runner

August 8, 2000: Wreckage of Hunley Recovered

From the August 8, 2021, Chicago Tribune.

AUGUST 8, 2020

The wreckage of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, which sank in 1864 after attacking and sinking the Union ship USS Housatonic, was recovered of the South Carolina coast and returned to port.

--Old B-R'er

J.R.M. Mullany at Battle of Mobile Bay-- Part 2: The Tecumseh Hits a Mine and Sinks

Almost immediately, Farragut's ships ran into trouble passing Fort Morgan and as the Confederate ironclad CSS Tennessee came into view.

Led by the USS Brooklyn, his leading wooden vessel, and closely followed by the flagship, USS Hartford, began slipping beyond the screen of U.S. monitors.  Fearful that the wooden ships would be easy prey for the approaching CSS Tennessee,   Commander Tunis A. Craven, ordered his monitor, USS Tecumseh, to cut through the minefield and intercept the Rebel ship.

This gamble failed for at 7:30 am, the Tecumseh struck a Confederate mine and sank with Craven and 92 others within a matter of minutes.

The USS Brooklyn's captain then became hesitant to proceed after what happened to the Tecumseh, brought his ship to a stop, which also brought the entire wooden to stop while under heavy fire from Fort Morgan's 45 guns.

The Battle of Mobile Bay was up for grabs at this point.  The Union ship's couldn't remain where they were and there was big fear of proceeding because of what had happened to the Tecumseh.

--Old B-Runner

J.R.M. Mullany at the Battle of Mobile Bay-- Part 1: USS Oneida Lashed to Former Ironclad USS Galena

From 290 Foundation  USS Galena.

The USS Oneida was lashed to the USS Galena when Farragut's fleet passed by Fort Morgan, guarding Mobile Bay.

In May 1864, the Galen joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and joined Admiral Farragut's long-delayed attempt to capture Mobile, Alabama.  Farragut gathered a fleet of eighteen ships, including four of the  latest ironclads to run the gauntlet of defending fire.

Among the Monitors were  the Tecumseh and Manhattan with their massive  15-inch Dahlgren cannons and the USS Winnebago and Chickasaw, each carrying four 11-inch Dahlgrens.

The USS Galena was now captained by  Lt. Cmdr.  Clark H. Wells.  The Galena had been one of the Union Navy's three original ironclads, but had not  worked out and had had its iron removed, so now was a wooden ship.

On August 5, 1864,   Farragut's ironclads led the advance toward Fort Morgan.  Beyond the fort,  Confederate Admiral  Franklin Buchanan's small defending fleet, including the ironclad CSS Tennessee and gunboats Gaines, Morgan and Selma.

Trailing closely behind the monitors, just to port, were Farragut's seven largest wooden warships, each with a smaller gunboat lashed to its port side.  The Galena was lashed to the port side of the USS Oneida, away from Fort Morgan.

--Old B-Runner

August 5, This Date in Civil War Naval History: Farragut and the USS Monitor

From the August 5, 2021, Chicago Tribune.

These two things were of significant importance to the Civil War Navis.

**  1864:  

Admiral David Farragut is said to have given his famous order, "Damn the torpedoes!  Full speed ahead!" as he led the Union fleet against Confederate forces in Alabama's Mobile Bay.

Of course, I have been writing about two other naval officers who were at this battle:  Charles V. Gridley and J.R.M. Mullany, although neither would have heard the admiral's utterance as they were at the end of the line on the USS Oneida.

**  2002:  

The coral-encrusted gun turret of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor was raised form the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

--Old B-Runner

J.R. Madison Mullany's Navy Career

From Naval History and heritage Command Navy Officers:  1798-1900

MIDSHIPMAN:  7 January 1832

PASSED MIDSHIPMAN:  23 June 1838

LIEUTENANT:  28 February 1844

COMMANDER:  18 October 1861

CAPTAIN:  25 July 1866

COMMODORE:  15 August 1870

REAR ADMIRAL:  5 June 1874

RETIRED LIST:  26 October 1879

DIED:  17  September 1887

--Old B-Runner

Mrs. Mullany Applies for Pension Increase-- Part 2: Those Horrible Wounds at the Battle of Mobile Bay

Of those forty-seven years of active service, over twenty-three years were spent on sea duty, and during twenty  years more, he was detailed on other important service.

At the Battle of Mobile, August 5, 1864,  he was placed in command of the Oneida by Admiral Farragut, and during the encounter his vessel, being in the rear of the line, was exposed to an exceptionally sever fire from Fort Morgan and the vessels of the enemy.

While in the gallant discharge of his duty, Commander Mullany was wounded severely  in several places; one of the wounds necessitated  the immediate amputation of his left arm; another fragment of shell struck him in the back, remaining embedded there until his death; while still another shattered  his shoulder blade, causing him serious  permanent  trouble.

Your committee, in consideration of  the long term of service of Rear Admiral Mullany and his exceptionally  active duties during this time, recommend the passage of the bill which is herewith submitted.

Hope Mrs. Mullany Got the Increase.  

--Old B-Runner

Mrs. Mullany Applies for a Pension Increase-- Part 1: Asking for Increase from $30 to $50 a Month

eBay has a copy of a government document as per the request and asking $22 for it.

50th Congress, First Session Report # 573

March 14, 1888

Mr. Blair from the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following:

Report to accompany Bill S. 2346

The Committee on Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Jennie Hart Mullany, praying for an increase in pension, have examined the same, and report:

The applicant Jennie Hart Mullany is the widow of Rear Admiral J.R.M. Mullany, who died October 6, 1887, she is now drawing a pension of $30 under general law, and askes that it now be increased to $50 a month.

Her husband entered the Navy as a midshipman, January 7, 1832, and continued in active service in the various grades to which he was duly promoted until October 29, 1879, when he was retired as rear-admiral, having reached the age of sixty-two years.

More to Come.  --Old B-Runner

J.R.M. Mullany-- Part 4: To the End of His Naval Career

He was commissioned commodore 15 August 1870 and was in charge of the Mediterranean Squadron  from October 1870 until November 1871.  From 1872 to 1874, he commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

After receiving his rear admiral's commission 5 June 1874,  he commanded the North Atlantic Squadron until February 1876, during a part of which time he  cooperated efficiently  with General  William H. Emory and General Philip Sheridan, who were successively in command of New Orleans.

He was governor of the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia from 1876 to 1879, when he was retired from active service, and he made, to the close of his life, his home in Philadelphia, dying at one of its summer resorts.

"No government or people," says one who knew him well, "ever had a more gallant and faithful public servant; and he was as modest, as genial, as gentle, and as kind as he was faithful and brave."

--Old B-Runner

J.R.M. Mullany-- Part 3: Arm Amputation and War Service

During the Battle of Mobile, the USS Oneida was one of the hardest-hit Union ships.  One shot inflicted a severe loss of the ship and wounded  Mullany in several places.  One of those wounds resulted in the amputation of his left arm.

From April to September 1863, Mullany had commanded a division of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and during the course of the war, he captured eleven blockade runners of a great aggregate value, and, in addition, cut out, with boats, two schooners laden with cotton in the harbor of Galveston, Texas..  

From May 1865 to May 1868, he was  inspector in charge of ordnance  in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Commissioned captain in 1866, and was one of the  board of visitors to the U.S. Navy Academy at Annapolis in 1868.  Then, from December 1868 to November 1871, he commanded he USS Richmond on the European Station

--Old B-Runner