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USS Clover (I)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Steam Tug:
Built, date and location unknown
Launched, date unknown
The steam tug Daisy was purchased at Philadelphia, PA. for the Navy by COMO. C.K. Stribling, 11 November 1863, from Winsor and Co.
Outfitted at Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned there as USS Clover, 28 November 1863, Acting Ensign J. M. Smiley in command
USS Clover sailed, 1 December 1863, to join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Beaufort, S.C.
She was employed on picket duty guarding the monitors, and on tug and dispatch service until the end of the war
On 26 January 1865, she captured the schooner Coquette and brought her into Port Royal, S.C.
After the war, Clovershe joined in dragging for torpedoes off Charleston, S.C.
Arriving at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 26 July 1865, Clover was decommissioned, 27 July 1865
Sold 21 September 1865
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
Displacement 129 t.
Length 92'
Beam 19'
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft 9'
Speed 7 kts
Complement unknown
Armament
one 12-pdr rifle
one heavy 12-pdr smoothbore
Propulsion
one condensing steam engine, cylinder diameter 20", stroke 26"
two return tubular boilers
single screw
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Clover (I)
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