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USS Fernandina
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
Civil War Medal
Bark:
Built, date and location unknown
Launched, date unknown
Purchased for the Navy, 29 July 1861, at New York as the bark Florida by George D. Morgan from Mailler and Houghton for $14,000
Commissioned, USS Fernandina, 16 November 1861, Acting Volunteer LT. G. W. Browne in command
USS Fernandina was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads, where she reported for duty, 2 December 1861
She was ordered south to duty on the blockade of Wilmington, N.C.
On 13 December 1861, she scattered a Confederate encampment on the beach near Little River Inlet, N.C., and 12 days later she took prize William H. Northrop,
running the blockade with a cargo of drugs and coffee
The bark discovered the schooner Kate out of Nassau, run aground, 2 April 1862, and after taking her papers off, burned the schooner, since both Fernandina
and her party boarding the blockade runner were under Confederate fire from the shore
On 11 June, Fernandina was reassigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron which she joined off Charleston, S.C.
Aside from the summer of 1863, when she sailed north for repairs, the bark blockaded at St. Simon's and St. Catherine's, Georgia, and in Ossabaw Sound
She captured the sloop Annie Thompson 16 January 1864, after the blockade runner had grounded
Detached from her squadron 3 April 1865, Fernandina sailed north to Philadelphia, PA.
She was decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 29 April 1865
Sold a public auction, 2 June 1865 at Philadelphia, PA.
Final Disposition, fate unknown
Specifications:
Displacement 297 t.
Length 115'
Beam 29'
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft 10'
Speed 8 kts
Complement 86
Armament
1861 - six 32-pdr, 42cwt
1863 - six 32-pdr, 42cwt; one 24-pdr howitzer; one 20-pdr Parrott rifle
Propulsion sail
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