History | |
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United States | |
Ordered | as Cricket No. 3 |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | 1863 |
Acquired | 8 March 1864 |
Commissioned | 11 April 1864 |
Decommissioned | 28 June 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Fate | Sold, 17 August 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 171 tons |
Length | 161' 2" |
Beam | 30' 4" |
Draught |
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Propulsion |
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Speed | 4 mph |
Complement | not known |
Armament | eight 24-pounder smoothbore guns |
Armour | tinclad |
USS Nymph was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a dispatch boat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
Cricket No. 3 commissioned as Nymph
[edit]Cricket No. 3, a stern wheel wooden river steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863, was purchased by the Navy at Cincinnati 8 March 1864, fitted out as a "tinclad" gunboat, and commissioned at Mound City, Illinois, as Nymph 11 April 1864, Acting Master Patrick Donnelly in command.
Assigned to the Mississippi Squadron
[edit]Nymph patrolled the Mississippi River and its tributaries through the end of the Civil War, helping to maintain Union lines of supply and communication.
Post-war decommissioning and sale
[edit]She decommissioned 2+1⁄2 miles above Cairo, Illinois, 28 June 1865 and was sold at public auction at Mound City 17 August 1865 to M. A. Hutchinson.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
[edit]- Photo gallery at Naval Historical Center
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