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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive USS Queen Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Screw Steamer:
British iron hull screw steamer blockade runner, SS Victory captured by USS Santiago de Cuba, 21 June 1863
Name changed, 1 August 1863
Fitted out as a transport and supply ship operating between northern ports and the Gulf of Mexico
Commissioned USS Queen, 15 August 1863 , Acting Master Robert Tarr in command
Purchased by the Navy from the Boston Prize Court, 29 September 1863, for $65,000
Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register at New York Navy Yard, 21 June 1865
Sold at New York, 16 October 1865 to Smith and Dunning
Final Disposition, fate unknown Specifications:
Displacement 630 t.
Length 168' 8"
Beam 28' 4"
Draft 9' 9"
Depth 13'
Speed unknown
Complement 83
Armament
13 August 1863 - three 32-pdrs 51cwt, one 12-pdr rifle
5 December 1863 - three 32-pdrs 51cwt, two 12-pdr rifles, one 20-pdr Parrott rifle
Propulsion
one inverted vertical direct-acting steam engine; cylinder diameter 40", stroke 42"
one water bottom, horizontal tubular boiler
single screw
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