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
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