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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive USS Home Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Steamer:
built in 1862 as the wood hull steamer Key West at Brooklyn, N.Y.
Launched, date unknown
Purchased for the U.S. Navy by RADM. F.H. Gregory at New York, 14 August 1863
Delivered, 18 August 1863, to New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Commissioned USS Home, 21 August 1863, at New York Navy Yard, Acting Master W. H. Garfield in command
USS Home was assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
She sailed after commissioning for Charleston towing monitor USS Lehigh
Home was assigned by RADM. Dahlgren as a rest ship, to which the exhausted crews of the steaming monitors could retire after the fierce bombardments of early September
She remained off Charleston with periodic trips to Port Royal for repairs until July 1864, when she was assigned to act as a hospital ship inside the bar at Charleston
She continued her combination blockader-hospital ship service until mid-1865, when she took up lightship duties in the harbor
During this period Home also sent members of her crew ashore on boat expeditions in the Charleston area, notably 5 March 1865 when an important reconnaissance of Charleston harbor obstructions was effected.
Home returned to the New York Navy Yard in August 1865 and decommissioned 24 August 1865
Sold at public auction, 5 September 1865, redocumented SS Key West, she returned to merchant service
Final Disposition, stranded and lost off Cape Hatteras 12 October 1870 Specifications:
Displacement 725 t.
Length 165'
Beam 20'9"
Depth of Hold 11'
Draft 13'6"
Speed 6kts
Complement unknown
Armament
one 24-pdr howitzer
one 12-pdr howitzer rifle
Propulsion
two horizontal steam engines, cylinder 32", stroke 30"
one boilers, four furnaces
twin propellers
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