USS Wando (1864)
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United States | |
Name | USS Wando |
Namesake | Probably the Wando River in South Carolina |
Builder | Messrs. Kirkpatrick, M'Intyre & Co. |
Launched | 25 March1864 |
Acquired | 5 November 1864 |
Commissioned | 22 December 1864 |
Decommissioned | 10 August 1865 |
Captured | by Union Navy forces on 21 October 1864 |
Fate | Sold 30 November 1865 |
Notes | In commercial service as SS Wando from 1865 until sunk in storm February 1872 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 645 tons |
Tons burthen | 468 tons |
Length | 230 ft (70 m) |
Beam | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
Draught | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
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The first USS Wando was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. In commission from 1864 to 1865, she was used by the United States Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
Capture
Wando was built in 1864 as the side-wheel steamer Let Her Rip by Messrs. Kirkpatrick, M'Intyre & Co., Port Glasgow, United Kingdom. Launched on 25 March,[1] she was built for use as a Confederate blockade runner in the American Civil War. Let Her Rip sailed under British colors until May 1864 when the Chicora Import and Export Company of Charleston, South Carolina, purchased her. In July 1864, after her first blockade-running trip into Wilmington, North Carolina, she was renamed SS Wando.
Wando was captured at sea off
Union actions
Late in December 1864, Wando proceeded south for duty with the
Wando departed Charleston on 11 February 1865 and joined in amphibious operations against the Confederate fort and batteries at Andersonville, Bull's Bay, South Carolina, lasting from 13 February to 17 February 1865. The fort and batteries were silenced, prompting the evacuation of Charleston on 18 February 1865. In March, Wando joined the blockading force off Georgetown, South Carolina, and then returned to Charleston in April 1865.
Decommissioning and sale
Wando remained at Charleston until ordered north to the
See also
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- ^ "Port-Glasgow - Launch". Glasgow Herald. No. 7555. Glasgow. 26 March 1864.