Specifications:
Displacement 730 t.
Length 208' 2"
Beam 33' 2"
Draft 8' 6"
Speed 8 kts
Complement 134
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90k | USS Miami coaling from a schooner near Roanoke Island, N.C., while serving in the North Carolina Sounds, circa 1862-64. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 46255 |
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115k | USS Miami crew on the forecastle, circa 1862-64. Frank W. Hackett, a former officer of the ship, wrote in 1910: "The officer standing in the background, at the extreme prow of the ship, is W.N. Wells, Executive Officer. The man in the foreground with his arm on the nine-inch gun is White, the gunner. Sergeant of Marines, Stanley, is sitting in the foreground, near the capstan". Men are playing checkers by the capstan. Anti-boarding nettings are rigged on each side of the ship but rolled up in front of the bow guns. There are a number of black sailors visible among the crew. The text of Mr. Hackett's comments was provided by John W. Hinds in 1994 US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 60873 |
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88k | USS Miami black crew members sewing and relaxing on the forecastle, starboard side, circa 1864-65. This image is a detail from the right side of Photo # NH 60873.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55510 |
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138k | "The Rebel Ram Attacking Federal Gun-Boats at Plymouth, North Carolina" An engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", May 1864, depicting CSS Albemarle driving off USS Miami, after ramming and sinking USS Southfield (foreground), 19 April 1864. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 59161 |
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81k | "After a shooting trip ashore, officers of the gunboat [USS] Miami relax on deck with the hounds", circa 1864-65. Note officer with shotgun and game bag, with two hunting dogs at his feet. Seated Lieutenant at left holds a smaller dog while sharing a newspaper with other officers nearby. Quoted caption data comes from Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, Volume 6, page 199. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 60987 |
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104k | A photograph by Matthew Brady of a crew manning an IX-in Dahlgren smoothbore gun. This is probably USS Miami. Note anti-boarding netting; ship's wheel at left; cartridge boxes, cutlasses and revolvers worn by some men; gun-handling equipment and Marine by the rear of the gun. USS Miami carried IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns on a slide-pivot mounting at the extreme bow and stern. See Photo #s NH 46255 and NH 60873 for views of Miami showing similar details. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 61933 |
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89k | Lieutenant Commander Charles W. Flusser, USN, (1832-1864) was born at Annapolis, Maryland, on 27 September 1832. He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1847 and graduated with the Class of 1853. During the Civil War, he commanded the gunboats USS Commodore Perry and USS Miami in operations in the North Carolina Sounds area. LCDR. Flusser was killed in action on 19 April 1864 in the engagement between Miami and the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 49566 |
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USS Miami (I)
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