USS Iron Age-- Part 1: Looked for the CSS Tacony

From Wikipedia.

144 feet long, 25-foot beam, 424 ons, steamship, screw propeller,  Mounted three 30-pdr. Dahlgren rifles and six 8-inch Dahlgren guns.

Built Kennebunk, Maine and purchased by the Navy in Boston, Massachusetts, 28 April 1863. Commissioned  25 June 1863 with Lt.Cmdr. E.E. Stone in command.

Afterwards, searched for Confederate commerce raider CSS Tacony, but stopped when they found it had been burned and its crew captured.  returned to Boston 7 July 1862 and spent the rest of the summer in New England waters protecting Union commerce, fisheries and the coast.

--Old B-R'er