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USLHS Granite
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 USS Granite (1862 - 1865)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Sloop:
  • Built, date and location unknown
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Transferred from the Light House Board, 19 January 1862
  • Commissioned USS Granite in January 1862, Acting Master's Mate Ephraim Boomer in command
  • USS Granite was assigned in North Atlantic Blockading Station in the North Carolina Sounds
  • On 7-8 February 1862 Granite participated in the Federal land-sea expedition take Roanoke Island and capture control of the North Carolina sound region and its Outer Banks. The force was under the joint command of Brig. Gen. Ambrose Burnside and navy Flag-Officer Louis Goldsborough.
  • For the remainder of the Civil War, she operated in the sounds of North Carolina
  • Decommissioned at Washington, D.C., 29 June 1865 and was returned to the US Lighthouse Service
  • Final Disposition, sold in Philadelphia in December 1866
    Specifications:
    Displacement 75 t.
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 32-pdr gun
    one 130-pdr gun
    Propulsionsail
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