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USS Mayflower (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Screw Tug:
  • Built for the Navy in 1865-66 at Chelsea, MA. by James Tetlow
  • Launched in 1866
  • Commissioned USS Mayflower in February 1866, at Boston Navy Yard
  • USS Mayflower departed Boston, 16 February 1866, and arrived Norfolk on the 21st
  • Laid up in ordinary in the Norfolk Navy Yard until 1870
  • Recommissioned in September 1870
  • She sailed for Annapolis, 30 September, to prepare for service on the expedition to Tehuantepec, Mexico, to survey the isthmus for a possible interoceanic canal
  • The expedition got underway from Hampton Roads, 14 October, and reached Minatitlan, Mexico, 11 November
  • After gathering valuable data about the topography of Central America during the winter and spring, Mayflower returned to the Washington Navy Yard 25 May
  • She remained in the Potomac until sailing for Portsmouth, N.H., 19 August 1872, for duty as a dispatch boat
  • In the years that followed she served at Norfolk, Annapolis, and Washington until she decommissioned 20 October 1874
  • After repairs at Camden, N.J., Mayflower recommissioned, 11 May 1876, and 2 days later got underway for Annapolis for duty as a training ship at the Naval Academy
  • Her valuable service teaching the art of seamanship to the Nation's future naval leaders continued until Mayflower was struck from the Navy list 23 September 1892
  • Sold at public auction to Thomas Butler & Co., of Boston, MA., 27 December 1893
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 420 t.
    Length 137'
    Beam 26'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 9'6"
    Speed 10.6 kts
    Complement unknown
    Armament two guns
    Propulsion
    one steam engine
    one boiler
    single screw
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