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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive Lily
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US Army Tug Jessie (1862)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Steam Tug:
Built as the steam tug Jessie Benton, date and location unknown
Launched, date unknown
Purchased by the War Department, 5 May 1862
Jessie Benton was used by the Quartermaster Corps on the western rivers; she was known as Jessie until transferred to the Navy, 30 September 1862
Renamed Lily, 19 October 1862, placed under the command of Acting ENS. Richard H. Smith
Lily was assigned to RADM. David Dixon Porters Mississippi Squadron
Lily served on that river, including duty during the Vicksburg campaign
Final Disposition, sunk near Chickasaw Bayou in the Yazoo River in a collision with the ironclad ram USS Choctaw, 28 May 1863. Specifications:
Displacement 50 t.
Length unknown
Beam unknown
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament none
Propulsion
one steam engine
one boiler
single screw
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