USS Commodore Hull
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 USS Commodore Hull
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| History | |
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| Name | USS Commodore Hull |
| Namesake | Commodore Isaac Hull |
| Ordered | as Nuestra Senora de Regla |
| Launched | 1860 |
| Acquired | 1 September 1862 |
| Commissioned | 27 November 1862 |
| Decommissioned | 8 June 1865 |
| Fate | Sold, 27 September 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Gunboat |
| Displacement | 376 long tons (382 t) |
| Length | 141 ft (43 m) |
| Beam | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
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USS Commodore Hull was a
ferryboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America
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Service history
Commodore Hull – a
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and operated along the coasts and rivers of Virginia and North Carolina. She took part in the siege of Washington, N.C. from 30 March – 16 April 1863. In Albemarle Sound, she took part in the 5 May 1864 Battle of Albemarle Sound with the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle
. As a picket, Commodore Hull was the first to sight the formidable ram approaching and fired at her from close quarters in the three-hour engagement.
Commodore Hull joined in the attacks on and the capture of
New York Navy Yard. Commodore Hull was sold at the Yard on 27 September. She was subsequently renamed to Waccamaw in civilian employment, which lasted until sometime prior to 1885. Abandoned on the Cape Fear River across from downtown Wilmington, North Carolina
, the steamboat was burned to the waterline in 1886. Some of her remains (consisting of the engine bed, boiler foundation, portions of the lower hull and paddle wheel spokes) are still visible at low tide.
References
- ^ "USN Ships – USS Commodore Hull (1862–1865)". Retrieved 27 June 2006.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- "Commodore Hull". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 27 June 2006.
- "Medal of Honor - New York Civil War Recipients". Archived from the original on 28 May 2006. Retrieved 27 June 2006.
- "Across the Cape Fear from Wilmington sit more than 30 wrecks". Retrieved 2010-01-22.