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USS Jean Sands

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Tug:
  • Laid down in 1863 at Brooklyn, N.Y
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Purchased by RADM. H Paulding at New York from T. F. Rowland, 18 October 1864, for $46,000
  • Delivered to New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y., 17 October 1864
  • USS Jean Sands was assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard as a station tug where she served as a tug and salvage vessel, she was equipped to pump out sunken vessels
  • Decommissioned, date unknown
  • Sold 16 May 1892
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 139 t.
    Length 102'
    Beam 22'8"
    Depth of Hold 6'2"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    one steam engine
    one boiler
    single screw
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