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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive USS Hydrangea Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Tug:
Built in 1862 as the wooden steam tug Hippodame at Buffalo, N.Y.
Launched, date unknown
Purchased for the Navy by RADM. H. Paulding, 18 October 1863, at Erie N.Y., from C. W. Copeland for $33,000
Commissioned USS Hydrangea, 18 April 1864, at New York Navy Yard, ENS. C. W. Rogers in command
USS Hydrangea was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads, VA.
Hydrangea spent May towing monitors and acting as tender to the monitor USS Onondaga
The tug then took up station in the James River, where she acted as a tug and mail boat. Making two trips a day from Deep Bottom, near the front lines, to the large supply base at City Point, she helped support the Union efforts to break the military stalemate around Richmond
USS Hydrangea was then transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 23 July 1864. After repairing she reported to Port Royal, S.C., 30 September
USS Hydrangea was used as a blockading ship and tug inside the Charleston Bar until the end of the war
Hydrangea decommissioned at New York Navy Yard, 1 September 1865
Sold at public auction, 25 October, to S. and J. M. Flanagan ro $10,300
Redocumented Norman, 4 January 1866, she returned to private service
Final Disposition, stranded and lost off Cape May, N.J., 17 November 1886 Specifications:
Displacement 224 t.
Length 120'
Beam 20'3"
Depth of Hold 9'6"
Draft unknown
Speed 11kts
Complement unknown
Armament
one 20-pdr Parrott rifle
two 12-pdr howitzers
Propulsion
one low pressure overhead steam engines, cylinder diameter 30", stroke 30"
one boiler, flues returning through tubes
single screw
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