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USS Tuscarora

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Screw Sloop:
  • Laid down, 27 June 1861, by Merrick and Sons, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Launched, 24 August 1861
  • Commissioned, USS Tuscarora 5 December 1861, CDR. Tunis A.M. Craven in command
  • Decommissioned, 4 June 1864, at Boston, MA.
  • Recommissioned at Boston, 3 October 1864
  • Decommissioned, 30 May 1865, at Boston, MA.
  • During the Civil War USS Tuscarora cruised independently in European and US Atlantic coastal waters protecting American shipping and searching for Confederate raiders and saw service with both North Atlantic and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons
  • Recommissioned later in 1865 and sailing to join the South Pacific Squadron, 2 November 1865
  • Reassigned to the Atlantic 12 May 1869
  • Decommissioned, 10 February 1872, at Portsmouth, N.H.
  • Recommissioned, 16 May 1872, assigned to the South Pacific Station
  • Reassigned to the North Pacific Station, 11 October 1874
  • Decommissioned, 14 September 1876, at Mare Island Navy Yard
  • Struck from the Naval Register in 1883
  • Sold at Mare Island to W. E. Mighell, 20 November 1883
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,457 t.
    Length 198' 6"
    Beam 33' 2"
    Draft 14' 10"
    Speed 11 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    two 11" Dahlgren smoothbores
    two 32-pdrs hundred-weight
    four 32-pdrs 57 hundred-weight
    one 30-pdr Parrott rifle
    Propulsion steam and sail
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    Pensacola 838k USS Tuscarora at anchor off Navy Yard Mare Island, circa 1872-76. Darryl Baker
    Vanderbilt 1319k USS Tuscarora at anchor off Navy Yard Mare Island, circa 1866-83. USS Camanche is at anchor aft of Tuscarora. The small ship in the foreground is the Mare Island build Coast Survey Vessel Mc Arthur. Darryl Baker
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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