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Capture Of Plymouth
The Capture of Plymouth was a battle of the American Civil War, fought in October 1864. Following the sinking of CSS ''Albemarle'' during a commando raid led by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, Union naval forces attacked Plymouth, North Carolina, which was defended by Confederate artillery. After three days of fighting, the Confederates retreated from the area, allowing the Union navy to land men and occupy the town.United States. Navy Dept, United States. Naval War Records Office, pg. 12–27 Order of battle United States Navy: * USS ''Wyalusing'', gunboat, 1,173 tons, 14 guns * USS ''Shamrock'', gunboat, 974 tons, 11 guns, flagship * USS ''Otsego'', gunboat, 974 tons, 10 guns * USS ''Tacony'', gunboat, 974 tons, 9 guns * USS ''Chicopee'', gunboat, 974 tons, 10 guns * USS ''Commodore Hull'', gunboat, 376 tons, 6 guns * USS ''Valley City'', gunboat, 190 tons, 4 guns * USS ''Whitehead'', gunboat, 136 tons, 1 gun * USS ''Bazely'', gunboat, 50 tons * USS ''Belle'', torpedo boat, 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states that had seceded. The central cause of the war was the dispute over whether slavery would be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prevented from doing so, which was widely believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction. Decades of political controversy over slavery were brought to a head by the victory in the 1860 U.S. presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion into the west. An initial seven southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victory by seceding from the United States and, in 1861, forming the Confederacy. The Confederacy seized U.S. forts and other federal assets within their borders. Led by Confederate President Jefferson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Battles Of The American Civil War
The naval battles of the American Civil War, fought between the Union and the Confederacy, changed the foundations of naval warfare with the first use of ironclads and submarines, and the introduction of newer and more powerful naval artillery. The first shots of the naval war were fired on April 12, 1861, during the Battle of Fort Sumter, by the US Revenue Cutter Service cutter . The final shots were fired on June 22, 1865, by the Confederate raider in the Bering Strait, more than two months after General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Confederate Army. Significant battles Hampton Roads One of the most important and famous naval battles of the American Civil War was the clash of the ironclads, between and at the Battle of Hampton Roads. The battle took place on March 8, 1862, and lasted for several hours, resulting in a tactical draw. These revolutionary new warships were protected by the thick armor plating that gives them the name ironclad, which prevented any lasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spar Torpedo
A spar torpedo is a weapon consisting of a bomb placed at the end of a long pole, or spar, and attached to a boat. The weapon is used by running the end of the spar into the enemy ship. Spar torpedoes were often equipped with a barbed spear at the end, so it would stick to wooden hulls. A fuse could then be used to detonate it. Invention Robert Fulton had written about submarine (i.e., subsurface) marine torpedoes in 1810, and experiments were conducted using spar torpedoes that year. Boats carrying spar torpedoes were used during the War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It .... E. C. Singer, a private engineer who worked on secret projects for the benefit of the Confederate States of America, constructed a spar torpedo during the American Civil War. His to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Belle (1864)
USS ''Belle'' was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy for various tasks, including those of a torpedo boat. Service history ''Belle''—a screw tug completed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in 1864—operated briefly at Boston, Massachusetts, before she was purchased there by the Union Navy on June 2, 1864. Commissioned in the next day or so, the tug headed south on June 8 to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. The Norfolk Navy Yard refitted ''Belle'' to serve as a torpedo boat so that she might help defend larger Union warships in the North Carolina Sounds against attacks by the Confederate ironclad ram ''CSS Albemarle'' that, the previous spring, had emerged from the Roanoke River and defeated a Union flotilla. Ready by late July, ''Belle'' and three other tugs were towed to Hatteras Inlet by the sidewheel steamer , entered the sounds, and proceeded under their own power to the mouth of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bazely (1863)
USS ''Bazely'' (also designated ''Tug No. 2'' and ''Beta'') was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy in a tugboat/patrol boat role in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Service history ''J. E. Bazely''—a screw tug built in 1863 at Gloucester, New Jersey—was one of six similar vessels purchased at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by the U.S. Navy on June 3, 1864 to support other Union warships in all the varied ways in which tugs assist larger ships. These vessels were also needed to help protect Northern men of war and Union Army transports against surprise attacks by Confederate rams, torpedo boats, or other novel craft which had been a cause of great concern since ''CSS Virginia's'' first foray on March 8, 1862. The submersible H. L. Hunley's sinking of the screw sloop of war ''Housatonic'' and the ironclad ram ''Albemarle's'' destruction of the side wheel gunboat ''Southfield'' la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Whitehead
USS ''Whitehead'', a screw steamer built in 1861 at New Brunswick, New Jersey, served as a gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. ''Whitehead'' was purchased by the Navy on 17 October 1861 at New York City from D. B. Martin, and commissioned on 19 November 1861, Acting Master Charles A. French in command. Service history North Carolina blockade, 1862 The following day, ''Whitehead'' reached Hampton Roads and joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. She sailed for the North Carolina coast on 28 December 1861 and arrived at Hatteras Inlet on 4 January 1862. During the next few months, the steamer ''Whitehead'' carried out extensive operations against Confederate vessels and shore installations in the sounds and rivers of North Carolina. On 7–8 February, she helped to capture Roanoke Island. On 10 February, ''Whitehead'' took schooner ''M. C. Etheridge'' on the Pasquotank River. On 10 April, she made prizes of schooners ''Comet'' and ''J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Valley City (1859)
USS ''Valley City'' was a 190-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy for service in the American Civil War. ''Valley City'' was outfitted as a gunboat and served blockade duty as well as performing surveillance duty. Service history ''Valley City''—a wooden-hulled screw-steamer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1859—was purchased by the Union Navy at New York City on 26 July 1861; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 13 September 1861, Lt. James C. Chaplin in command. The next day, ''Valley City'' left New York to join the Potomac Flotilla commanded by Capt. Thomas T. Craven. She arrived in the Potomac River off Occoquan Creek, Virginia, on the 17th and began patrol and reconnaissance duties. She exchanged gunfire with a Confederate battery at Freestone Point, Virginia, on 25 September. ''Valley City'' was reassigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Flag Officer Louis M. Goldsborough in October but first put into the Baltimore Navy Yard, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Commodore Hull (1862)
USS ''Commodore Hull'' was a ferryboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America. Service history ''Commodore Hull'' – a side-wheel ferryboat – was built at New York City in 1860 (or 1861) as the civilian ferryboat ''Nuestra Señora del Regla'', intended for use at Havana, Cuba. Purchased by the Union Navy on 1 September 1862, she was converted to a gunboat and commissioned on 27 November 1862, Acting Master W. G. Saltonstall in command. ''Commodore Hull'' was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull (1773–1843), a significant U.S. Naval commander during and after the War of 1812. There were four subsequent s, all destroyers. ''Commodore Hull''s ferryboat design made her especially useful for operations in sheltered waters, so she was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and operated along the coasts and rivers of Virginia and North Carolina. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Chicopee (1863)
USS ''Chicopee'' was a large steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy for various purposes, but especially to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Service history ''Chicopee'', a double-ended side wheel steamer, was built by Paul Curtis, Boston, Massachusetts; launched 4 March 1863; and commissioned 7 May 1864, Commander A. D. Harell in command. From 10 June 1864 ''Chicopee'' sailed off the coast and in the inland waters of North Carolina. She joined in the operations which led to the capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, between 29 October and 1 November 1864. Later she cooperated with the Union Army in the expeditions to Pitch Landing and against Rainbow Bluff, North Carolina, of December 1864. After overhaul at Norfolk Navy Yard in early 1865, ''Chicopee'' returned to North Carolina waters, and resumed her cruising with the North Atlantic Squadron until 24 Dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Tacony (1863)
USS ''Tacony'' was a double-ended, side-wheel steamboat acquired by the Union Navy during the third year of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a heavy gunboat with powerful guns and used in the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America. Service history Built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, ''Tacony'' – the first ship to be so named by the U.S. Navy – was launched on 7 May 1863; sponsored by Miss Ellie M. Wells, daughter of Lieutenant Commander Clark H. Wells, the captain of the yard at Philadelphia; and commissioned there on 12 February 1864, Lt. Comdr. William T. Truxtun in command. The double-ender was assigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron and sailed south from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania soon thereafter, bound for Key West, Florida. She reached Newport News, Virginia, on the 15th and entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for repairs to her steering machinery. While the steamer was undergoing this yard work, a dispatch arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Otsego (1863)
USS ''Otsego'' was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Service history ''Otsego'', a wooden, double-ended, side-wheel gunboat, was launched 31 March 1863 by Jacob A. & D. D. Westervelt, New York City, New York, and apparently commissioned in the spring of 1864, Commander John P. Bankhead in command . Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron 2 May 1864, ''Otsego'' reached Hampton Roads, Virginia, on the 24th, and got underway on 12 June for New Berne, North Carolina, and served in the North Carolina Sounds where she served throughout her career, helping tighten the Union grip on these strategic waters and adjoining territory, primarily guarding the mouth of the Roanoke River against an attack by Confederate ironclad ram '' CSS Albemarle''. When Lt. Cushing returned from his bold raid which destroyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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