USS Sea Foam (1861)
History | |
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United States | |
Acquired | 14 September 1861 |
Commissioned | 27 January 1862 |
Decommissioned | 16 May 1865 |
Fate | sold, 12 June 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 251 tons Ship length=112 ft 6 in (34.29 m) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) |
Propulsion | sail |
Armament |
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USS Sea Foam was a brig purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
She was used by the Union Navy primarily as a mortar gunboat, but also as a gunboat stationed off
Service history
Sea Foam was a wooden-hulled
On the afternoon of 18 April, Sea Foam and her sister mortar boats of the flotilla's third division opened fire on Fort Jackson and, during the following four hours, hurled 43 shells at the fort. Before dawn the next day, she resumed the bombardment and kept it up until well after sunset that evening, firing 88 shells during the day. She continued this pattern of operations during the following four days. Then, at midnight on the night of 23 and 24 April, she opened fire to join the bombardment which preceded Farragut's dash up river past the forts. She increased the rate of her fire to her maximum tempo some three and one-half hours later as Farragut's ships moved within range of the Southern batteries, and she maintained the pace until the Union ships were safely above the forts.
After New Orleans surrendered, Porter took his flotilla to a position off
For the next year, the brig, badly hampered by
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.