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USCS Corwin
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USS Corwin (1861 - 1865)
USRC Corwin (1861
USCS Corwin (1849 - 1861)


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Sidewheel Gunboat:
  • Built in 1849 at Philadelphia, PA. as a wooden steamer for the Coast Survey
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Commissioned into the U.S. Coast Survey, USCS Corwin date unknown
  • Transferred to the U.S. Revenue Service, April 1861, commissioned USRC Corwin
  • Transferred to the Navy Department for special service, September 1861
  • Commissioned USS Corwin, under command of LT. Thomas S. Phelps
  • Corwin surveyed the Coast of North Carolina
  • On 1 April 1862 USS Corwin joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron for duty in Hampton Roads and adjacent waters
  • On 13 July 1862 she was detached and ordered to the Potomac River for survey work
  • Corwin repulsed CSS Curlew in Hatteras Inlet 14 November 1861
  • She also rendered effective assistance to the steamer Quinnebaug aground off Beaufort, N.C. 22 July 1865
  • Decommissioned and returned to the U.S. Coast Survey, Treasury Department after the war.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 330 t.
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    two medium 32-pdrs
    two 12-pdrs
    Propulsion
    boiler(s)
    steam engine(s)
    two sidewheels

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