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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive USS Sunflower (I) Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Screw Steamer:
Built as the steamer Sunflower, date and location unknown
Launched, date unknown
Purchased by the Navy, 2 May 1863, at Boston, MA.
Commissioned USS Sunflower, 29 April 1863, at Boston, Acting Master Edward Sice in command
Sunflower joined the East Gulf Blockading Squadron at Key West in mid-May 1863
On 31 May, she seized schooner Echo and a cargo of cotton off the Marquesas Keys
On 13 June, she captured schooner Pushmatatta off Tortugas
On 27 August, Sunflower took schooner General Worth in the straits of Florida
On 6 October, Sunflower assisted USS Beauregard in seizing sloop Last Trial
On Christmas Eve 1863, she captured blockade runner Hancock near the lighthouse at Tampa Bay with a cargo of salt and borax
On 24 March 1864, Sunflower captured sloop Josephine in Sarasota Sound
Sunflower, with USS Honduras and USS James L. Davis, supported the capture of Tampa, FL., in a combined operation from 4 to 7 May
On 6 May the three ships captured sloop Neptune attempting to run the blockade
On 2 June, Sunflower landed three armed boats to destroy salt works at Tampa Bay
On 6 December 1864, of St. George's Sound she took Pickwick
On 30 March 1865, she and USS Somerset landed an expedition at St. Joseph's Bayou and destroyed salt works
Decommissioned, 3 June 1865, at Philadelphia and sold at auction on 10 August 1865
Final Disposition, fate unknown Specifications:
Displacement 294 t.
Length 104'5"
Beam 20'9"
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft 12'
Speed 10 kts
Complement unknown
Armament two 30-pdr Parrott rifles
Propulsionsteam Click On Image
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