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USS Housatonic, a 1930-ton Ossipee class steam screw sloop of war, was built at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts. Commissioned in August 1862, she arrived off Charleston, South Carolina, the following month to join United States' Navy forces blockading that Confederate seaport. During the next seventeen months, she played an active role, capturing or helping to capture several blockade runners, providing support for attacks on fortifications and otherwise assisting in operations against the Confederacy. On 17 February 1864, while anchored off Charleston, Housatonic was attacked by the submarine H.L. Hunley, gaining the unwanted distinction of becoming the first warship to be sunk by a submarine.
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Photo #: NH 53573 USS Housatonic (1862-1864) Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1902. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 465 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42916 Charleston Campaign, 1863-65 Photostat reproduction of a chart, redrawn from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion", entitled "Approaches to Charleston, S.C.". It shows the positions of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic, as well as the location where USS New Ironsides spent two hours over a "torpedo" on 7 April 1863. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 147KB; 680 x 675 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 42917 Charleston Campaign, 1863-65 Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston, South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863, 16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes". Copied from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 166KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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