USS Cowslip-- Part 3: Rescue Work

Now, here's a ship you rarely read about in Civil War history.  But here it is in this little old blog.

After Mobile Bay, the Cowslip was active in at-sea rescue work  She saved the crew of the USS Narcissus 8 December 1864 after that ship had been blown up by a Confederate torpedo at Egmont Key, Florida (by Tampa Bay).  The Cowslip also salvaged the Narcissus' guns and ammunition.

Next, the Cowslip rescued six wounded survivors from the USS Sciota after it hit a torpedo  14 April 1865 in Mobile Bay.

The Cowslip also rendered timely assistance by towing three ships out of danger when Marshall's warehouse in Mobile, Alabama, was wrecked by an explosion 25 May 1865.

The ship was sold on 28 August 1866 at Pensacola, Florida.

--Old B-Runner