The Suwanee was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned 23 January 1865> It cost $171,000.
Ordered to the Pacific on 17 February 1865 and went to New York City and then cruised the Atlantic coast looking for Confederate commerce raiders.
It passed around South America and steamed up its Pacific coast and arrived at Acapulco where it joined the Pacific Squadron. It was promptly ordered to look for the Shenandoah.
On 9 July 1868, it was wrecked in Shadwell Passage, Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia.
--Old B-R'er
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Showing posts with label USS Suwanee. Show all posts
Monday, November 16, 2015
The USS Suwanee, the Second Ship Looking for the Shenandoah-- Part 1
From Wikipedia.
i have already written about the USS Saranac, the ship that sent to look for the CSS Shenandoah and may or may not have almost caught the raider in the Atlantic Ocean in the fall of 1865. The other ship detailed to look for her was the USS Suwanee.
The Suwanee was a third-rate gunboat commissioned late in the war which spent several weeks looking for the CSS Shenandoah. Like the Saranac, the ship was wrecked off British Columbia, but seven years before in 1868.
It was a double-ender, iron-hulled, sidewheeler built for the U.S. Navy by Reaney, Son & Archbold of Chester, Pennsylvania. It was 255 feet long and 35-foot beam with a crew of 159. It mounted ten guns: two 100-pdr. Parrott rifles, four 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, two 24-pdr. howitzers and rwo 20-pdr Dahlgren rifles.
--Old B-Runner5
i have already written about the USS Saranac, the ship that sent to look for the CSS Shenandoah and may or may not have almost caught the raider in the Atlantic Ocean in the fall of 1865. The other ship detailed to look for her was the USS Suwanee.
The Suwanee was a third-rate gunboat commissioned late in the war which spent several weeks looking for the CSS Shenandoah. Like the Saranac, the ship was wrecked off British Columbia, but seven years before in 1868.
It was a double-ender, iron-hulled, sidewheeler built for the U.S. Navy by Reaney, Son & Archbold of Chester, Pennsylvania. It was 255 feet long and 35-foot beam with a crew of 159. It mounted ten guns: two 100-pdr. Parrott rifles, four 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores, two 24-pdr. howitzers and rwo 20-pdr Dahlgren rifles.
--Old B-Runner5
Friday, October 30, 2015
The Union's Pacific Squadron
From the Civil War Forum.
Even though the U.S. West Coast was far from the major fighting, there was still the possibility of Confederate commerce raiders attacking or attack from Southern sympathizers from Canada. A small fleet maintained guard along the Pacific coast.
The Pacific Squadron 1861-1865: Six sloops-of war:
USS Lancaster-- flagship
USS Saranac
USS Wyoming
USS Narragansett
USS Cyane
Also, at end of the war, the USS Suwanee.
The Saranac was commanded at one time by Gustavus H. Scott.
--Old B-Runner
Even though the U.S. West Coast was far from the major fighting, there was still the possibility of Confederate commerce raiders attacking or attack from Southern sympathizers from Canada. A small fleet maintained guard along the Pacific coast.
The Pacific Squadron 1861-1865: Six sloops-of war:
USS Lancaster-- flagship
USS Saranac
USS Wyoming
USS Narragansett
USS Cyane
Also, at end of the war, the USS Suwanee.
The Saranac was commanded at one time by Gustavus H. Scott.
--Old B-Runner
Thursday, October 29, 2015
USS Saranac-- Part 4: Looking for the Shenandoah
From the Official Records Navy. report of Acting Rear Admiral Pearson, Commanding the Pacific Squadron, August 4, 1865, to Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles.
He had sent the USS Saranac, Captain G. H. Scott, which had been at Acapulco, Mexico, to protect American interests during an uprising against the French, had been ordered to go in pursuit of the CSS Shenandoah, then cruising in the Pacific.
Pearson then ordered the USS Suwanee to also join the search for the Confederate cruiser.
That made two ships dedicated to the search. Waddell knew Union ships were looking for him and then there was always the possibility that he might be hanged as a pirate if caught.
--Old B-Runner
He had sent the USS Saranac, Captain G. H. Scott, which had been at Acapulco, Mexico, to protect American interests during an uprising against the French, had been ordered to go in pursuit of the CSS Shenandoah, then cruising in the Pacific.
Pearson then ordered the USS Suwanee to also join the search for the Confederate cruiser.
That made two ships dedicated to the search. Waddell knew Union ships were looking for him and then there was always the possibility that he might be hanged as a pirate if caught.
--Old B-Runner
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