USS Nipsic-- Part 1: Launching and Duty Station

From Wikipedia.

Was a ship in the Union Navy, laid down at Portsmouth Navy Yard on 24 December 1862 and launched  15 June 1863, commissioned  2 September 1863 with Lt. Cmdr. George Bacon in command.  179 feet long,  30-foot beam.

Armament:

one 150-pdr. rifle
one 30-pdr. rifle
two 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores
two 24-pdr. howizers
two 12-pdr. guns

Arrived off Morris Island, Charleston, S.C., on 5 November 1863 and served Charleston blockade for the rest of the war.

--Old B-R'er