USS Victory
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Ordered | as Banker |
| Launched | 1863 |
| Acquired | May 1863 |
| Commissioned | 8 July 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 30 June 1865 |
| Fate | Sold, 17 August 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 160 tons |
| Length | 157 ft (48 m) |
| Beam | 30 ft 3 in (9.22 m) |
| Draft | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) |
| Armament | one 24-pounder howitzer |
USS Victory was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
Victory was used primarily by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways. She also performed duties as a reconnaissance boat, a convoy escort, and as a dispatch boat.
Service history
Victory—a wooden merchant steamer built at
Mississippi Squadron called "tinclads" which were used during the Civil War for shallow water patrol and reconnaissance duty on the Tennessee, Ohio, and Cumberland rivers. On the day of Victory's commissioning, 8 July, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan crossed the Ohio River into Indiana at the head of a 2,460-man raiding party. From the 10th to the 19th, Victory, Moose, Reindeer, Springfield, Naumkeag
, and Allegheny Belle chased Morgan as he proceeded eastward along the river. Union cavalry ashore prevented him from recrossing the Ohio River to safety in the South.
While Victory and three of the gunboats remained scattered downstream on the 19th to prevent the raiding party from doubling back, the Federals finally trapped Morgan at
public auction
there to W. Thorwegen on 17 August. She was documented as Lizzie Tate on 7 October 1865 and was reduced to a barge on 22 November 1867. At this time, her service afterwards is unknown.
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References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.