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Fox (II)


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Schooner
  • Built in 1859 at Baltimore, MD.
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Served as the Confederate blockade runner Alabama
  • Captured, 18 April 1863, by USS Susquehanna
  • Purchased from the prize court, 6 May 1863, renamed Fox, her former merchant name
  • Fox first put to sea, 10 June 1863, Acting Master A. Weston in command.
  • Assigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, Fox sailed out of Key West throughout the remainder of the war
  • Her primary duty was as tender to the ordnance ship USS Dale and other large ships
  • Secondary duties involved patrols alone and with the squadron
  • She shared in the capture of several blockade runners sailing out of Havana
  • Sailing alone on 20 December 1863 she discovered a side-wheel steamer grounded at the mouth of the Suwanee River
  • After firing on her, sent a boarding party which found the steamer's crew had fled
  • Finding the engine room flooded and the job of getting the steamer off beyond her limited capacity, Fox burned her to prevent her further use by the Confederates
  • Four days later, again sailing alone, Fox encountered a British schooner from Havana in the Suwanee, and after firing several shells, boarded her and took her prize
  • On 18 April 1864, Fox chased a British schooner until the schooner's crew ran her aground and abandoned her
  • A party from Fox boarded and burned the blockade runner
  • She took another prize singlehanded on 1 May, when she apprehended a sloop running the blockade off Cape Romano, FL.
  • Her first prize in 1865, taken 23 January, was another British blockade runner out of Havana
  • On 2 March, Fox chased a schooner ashore in Deadman's Bay. The blockade runner's crew set her afire, but part of her cargo of cavalry sabers and farming equipment was saved from the flames by Fox's boarding party
  • Several times during these years boat parties from Fox destroyed valuable salt works ashore, such expeditions combining with her captures to make hers a most significant role in the total effort to cut the Confederacy off from key supplies.
  • Detached from duty, 1 June 1865, Fox was sold 28 June 1865
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 80 t.
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft 8'6"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 12-pdr howitzer
    one 12-pdr rifle
    Propulsion
    sail

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