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USS Tritonia
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Campaign Medal
Sidewheel Gunboat:
Built in 1863 as the wooden sidewheel steamer Sarah S. B. Gary at East Haddam, CT.
Launched, date unknown
Purchased by RADM Gregory for the Navy at Hartford, CT. 1 December 1863, from the Hartford and New York Steamboat Co., for $45,000
Delivered to the US Navy, 19 February 1864, at New York Navy Yard.
Commissioned USS Tritonia, 23 April 1864, at the New York Navy Yard, LT. Roswell H. Lamson in command
With
USS Stepping Stones and
USS Delaware,
USS Tritonia served in a special torpedo and picket division established in the James River, VA., 12 May 1864. The division patrolled the river to keep it clear of Confederate vessels, torpedoes, and fire rafts.
On 26 July, Tritonia left the division for duty with the West Gulf Blockading Squadron
She arrived in Mississippi Sound, 5 August, the day of Admiral Farragut's victory in Mobile Bay, and spent the remainder of the month operating as a dispatch vessel between New Orleans and
Mobile Bay
On 8 and 9 September, boat crews from Tritonia,
USS Rodolph,
USS Stockdale, and
US Army Transport Planter destroyed several large
Confederate salt works at Salt House Point in Bon Secours Bay, AL. As they returned to Mobile Bay on 11 September, the vessels were fired upon but suffered no casualties.
Tritonia resumed blockade duty, towing the captured schooner Medora to New Orleans, 15 December, for adjudication
She then operated in Mobile Bay until the end of the war and later at Pensacola and New Orleans
On 29 January 1866, Tritonia carried a company of Army troops up the Tombigbee River and recaptured the steamer Belfast which had been seized by guerrillas and
taken up that stream. The joint expedition also recovered the steamer's cargo of cotton and captured five guerrillas as well.
Decommissioned, date unknown
Sold at public auction at New York, 5 October 1866, $12,300
Redocumented as Belle Brown, 19 November 1866
Final Disposition, lost at sea in 1880
Specifications:
Displacement 202 t.
Length 178'
Beam 22'4"
Depth of Hold 7'6"
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament
30 September 1864 - one heavy 12-pdr, one light 12-pdr
31 December 1864 - one light 12-pdr, one 30-pdr Parrott rifle. one 24-pdr
31 December 1865 - one light 12-pdr smoothbore
Propulsion
steam engine(s)
boiler(s)
two sidewheels
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Tritonia
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
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