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USS Kittatinny


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal

Schooner:
  • Built, date and location unknown
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Stars and Stripes, a wood three-masted schooner, was purchased for the Navy by ADM S.F. Du Pont, at Philadelphia from Simpson and Neile, 21 September 1861. for $14,375
  • Commissioned USS Kittatinny, 9 December 1861, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, LT. George E. Welch in command
  • USS Kittatinny was assigned to the Gulf Blockading Squadron, she departed the Delaware 20 December and reached Key West 10 days later
  • An active blockader in the Gulf of Mexico, she shared in the capture of Major Barbour attempting to slip through the blockade with a cargo of gunpowder, niter, sulphur, percussion caps, and lead for the Confederate Army
  • She took schooner Julio near Barataria 11 May and captured schooner Emma 27 September
  • Schooner Matilda fell prey to the vigilant Union blockader off Matagarda Bay, Texas, 25 November; and schooner Diana was taken the next day
  • USS Kittatinny took sloop D. Sargent off Galveston 12 March 1863 shortly before sailing to New York for repairs
  • Kittatinny recommissioned at New York 10 June 1863, Acting Master Isaac D. Seyburn in command
  • On the 15th she sailed on a cruise in the North Atlantic seeking Confederate raider Tacony, a ship taking a heavy toll on Northern shipping
  • She returned to New York on the 29th and sailed 11 August to return to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron for duty off the Texas coast
  • She arrived on station 2 September; and on the 22nd she chased an unidentified schooner ashore where the blockade runner was burned by her crew
  • She captured schooner Reserve 25 October
  • Early in 1864 Kittatinny sailed via New Orleans to Pensacola, where she was based for over a year
  • On 25 March 1865 she sailed for Mobile Bay, where she served until after the end of the Civil War
  • She stood out from Mobile Bay 8 August; touched Pensacola; and arrived New York 1 September where she decommissioned, 27 September 1865
  • Kittatinny was sold at public auction, 27 September 1865, to D. McCarty & Son for $20,600
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 450 t.
    Length 129'
    Beam 29'
    Depth of Hold 11'6"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement 66
    Armament
    four 32-pdrs, 57cwt
    one 30-pdr Parrott rifle (added, 9 July 1863)
    one 12-pdr rifle (added, 9 July 1863)
    Propulsion sail

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