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USS Kalmia (I)
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Tug:
Built as the wood screw steamer Innes at Philadelphia in 1863
Launched, date unknown
Purchased for the Navy by RADM Hiram Paulding, 5 October 1863, from Arron Innes, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. for $25,000
Commissioned USS Kalmia, 24 April 1864
Kalmia was assigned to the North Atlantic Squadron as a fourth-rate tug
No further record of her other naval service has been found
Sold at public auction in New York, N.Y., 25 October 1865, for $9,900
Redocumented as F. B. Thurber 12 December 1865
Renamed James Hughes 8 November 1898
Final Disposition, destroyed by fire 15 June 1905 at Bartlett's Point, N.Y.
Specifications:
Displacement 112 t.
Length 85'
Beam 19'6"
Depth of Hold 7'6"
Draft 8'
Speed 12 kts
Complement unknown
Armament 2 guns
Propulsion
one overhead cylinder condensing steam engine; cylinder diameter 28", stroke 24"
one felted boiler; flues returning through tubes
single screw
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Kalmia (I)
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