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USS Wabashat Port Royal
1862 or 1863
Civil War Navy Union Ship / Sailors / Gun Crew / Cannon Crew
by Henry P. Moore
Vintage Albumen Photograph
Albumen photo 5 .75 x 7.75\" on 10.25x13\" card mount
USSWabash, a 4808-ton steam screw frigate, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Commissioned in August 1856, she initially served as flagship of the Home Squadron, then went to the Mediterranean in 1858-59. During 1861, the Civil War\'s first year,Wabashblockaded the Confederacy\'s Atlantic Coast and participated in the captures of Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, and Port Royal, South Carolina. As flagship of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, she was an active force in the Blockade of Charleston, S.C., in 1862-64. Her Civil War service was climaxed by participation in the ultimately successful December 1864 and January 1865 assaults on Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
Inactivated in February 1865,Wabashrecommissioned in 1871 and served for two years as flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron. In 1876, she became the receiving ship at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts. Ultimately housed over to increase internal space,Wabashserved in this role until she was sold in November 1912. The following year, she was burned to facilitate salvage of her metal parts.
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Condition: Nice
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