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USS Sagamore (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Unadilla Class Screw Gunboat:

Laid down, date unknown, at A. & G. T. Sampson and Atlantic Works, Boston, MA.

Launched, 1 September 1861

Commissioned, 7 December 1861, at the Boston Navy Yard

During the Civil War USS Sagamore was assigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron off the coasts of Florida, Alabama and Mississippi

Sagamore's boat crews participated in the capture of Apalachicola, FL, 3 April 1862 and destroyed salt works, at St. Andrews Bay, FL., 11 September 1862

Captured the blockade-running English schooner By George off Indian River, FL., 1 December 1862

During January 1863, USS Sagamore captured Avenger, Julia, and destroyed sloop Elizabeth

Captured sloop Enterprise, 8 March 1863

Took sloop New York, 26 April 1863

Participated in the attack at New Smyrna, FL., 28 July 1863

Captured sloops Clara Louise, Southern Rights, Shot, and Ann, 8 August 1863

Decommissioned, 1 December 1864, at Philadelphia, PA.

Sold, 13 June 1865, at New York subsequently entering Japanese service

Acquired by the Kubota Domain, one of the feudal domains of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan in 1865, as Saga-no-kami

Renamed Yoshun-maru in 1868 and donated to the nascent Imperial Japanese Navy during the Boshin War of the Meiji restoration Yoshun is recorded to have departed Uraga, 24 April 1869, for Miyako Bay, where she came under attack from the Republic of Ezo Navy gunboat Kaiten at the Battle of Miyako Bay on 27 April

She departed Miyako Bay on 6 May with a contingent of soldiers and equipment, which she delivered to Aomori on 8 May. She then transported troops and equipment from Aomori to Hakodate on 19 May and was a participant at the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay, remaining in those waters until the surrender of the last forces of the Republic of Ezo

In 1870, she was demilitarized and sold to a civilian shipping firm operating scheduled services between Osaka and Tokyo

Later in 1870 she was purchased by an American shipping firm for routes throughout the far east, and was renamed Daimyo

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 507 t.
Length 158' 8"
Beam 28'
Depth of Hold 12'
Draft 10' 6"
Speed 9 kts
Complement 114 officers and enlisted
Armament

one 11" Dahlgren smoothbore

one 20-pdr Parrott rifle

two 24-pdr howitzers

Propulsion

rigged as a two masted schooner

two 200 imp 30" stroke horizontal back-acting engines

single screw

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description
	82k	Line engraving published in Harper's Weekly, July-December 1861 volume. depicting the ten "90-Day Gunboats" constructed for the U.S. Navy in 1861-62. Ships, as identified in the image are from left to right; USS Chippewa USS Sciota USS Itasca USS Winona USS Huron USS Ottawa USS Pembina USS Seneca USS Unadilla and USS Sagamore. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #: NH 59367		Robert Hurst
	75k	*"View of Ship Island, Louisiana. -- By our Special Artist on Board the 'Sagamore"* Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting several U.S. Navy ships anchored off the Federal base at Ship Island in early 1862. Ships are (from left to right) USS Winona, USS New London, USS Niagara, USS Sagamore, USS Wissahickon, and USS Massachusetts. Other features identified, in the center and right background, are Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island, the 9th Connecticut and 22nd Massachusetts Regiments and a military camp. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 59009		US Naval History and Heritage Command

USS Sagamore (I)
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