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USS Juniper (I)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Tug:
Laid down in 1864 as the wood tug Uno by by John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, N.J. for Solomon Thomas
Launched in 1864
Purchased for the navy by RADM. H. Paulding, 7 June 1864, at New York from Solomon Thomas for $28,000
Commissioned USS Juniper, 11 July 1864, at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Juniper sailed for Washington via Hampton Roads arriving at the Washington Navy Yard, 17 July 1864
Two days later she was attached to the Potomac Flotilla where she served during the remainder of the war performing varied duties as a tug, dispatch vessel, and patrol ship
She sailed from the lower Potomac 5 May 1865 for the Washington Navy Yard, where she decommissioned 26 May
Sold, 29 June 1865, to the Treasury Department for service under the Lighthouse Board
Specifications:
Displacement 116 t.
Length 79'6"
Beam 18'4"
Depth of Hold 10'9"
Draft 9'
Speed 10 kts
Complement 26
Armament
one 12-pdr heavy rifle
one 20-pdr Parrott rifle
Propulsion
one overhead cylinder condenser, linked motion, balanced piston valves steam engine; cylinder dimension 24", stroke 20"
one boiler: leg; two furnaces and upper return flue
single screw
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Juniper (I)
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