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USS Cricket

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Stern-wheel Steamer (Tinclad #6):

Built, 1860 as Cricket No. 2> at California, PA

Purchased by the Navy, 18 November 1862, at Cairo, IL.

Commissioned USS Cricket, 19 January 1863, Acting Master A. R. Langhorne in command

During the Civil War USS Cricket was assigned to the Mississippi Squadron and participated in the following actions/campaigns:

Patrolled off Memphis, TN. from 4 February to 7 April 1863

Patrolled the Mississippi from the White River Station between Memphis and the Arkansas River, April to August 1863

White River and Little Red River expedition, capturing Kaskaskia and CSS Tom Sugg, 14 August 1863

Assigned to the Red River Station participating in an expedition up the Black and Ouachita Rivers, 29 February to 5 March 1864

Out of commission, 31 May 1864, for repairs from damage sustained during the Black and Ouachita Rivers expedition

Recommissioned, 13 August 1864, assigned to the White River Station

Decommissioned, 30 June 1865

Final Disposition, sold, 17 August 1865, at Mound City, IL., and dismantled in 1867

Specifications:
Displacement 178 t.
Length 154' 1"
Beam 28' 2"
Draft 4'
Speed 6 kts
Complement unknown
Armament six 24-pdr howitzers
Propulsion steam

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
137k	USS Cricket ("Tinclad" #6) tied up at a Western Rivers city, during the last years of the Civil War, with a barge astern and a boat alongside. Note the decorative star suspended between her smokestacks. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55524.	Aryeh Wetherhorn
109k	USS Cricket ("Tinclad" #6) tied up at a Western Rivers city, during the last years of the Civil War, with a barge astern and a river steamboat in the distance. Note the identification number ("6") painted on her pilothouse. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 63377.	Aryeh Wetherhorn
208k	"Attack on the 'Cricket' by 2,500 Confederates, Under General Green" Engraving from Porter's "History of the Civil War", page 522, depicting USS Cricket engaged in a running battle with Confederate troops and artillery along the Red River on 26 April 1864. *Cricket* was the flagship of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter during this action. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 42369.	Aryeh Wetherhorn

USS Cricket
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