USS ALASKA
Major
- Joined
- Mar 16, 2016
10 Oct 1861
Virginia. USS Daylight, Commander Lockwood, silenced a Confederate battery attacking the American ship John Clark anchored in Lynnhaven Bay.
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The gunboat USS Daylight. Alfred Rudolph Waud (1828-1891) Originally built in 1859 for operation on Long Island Sound as a merchant steamer, Daylight was purchased by the Navy in 1861 and used as a gunboat through the American Civil War. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division. Public domain This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.
USS Daylight
(ScStr: t. 682; l. 170'; b. 30'6"; dr. 13'; s. 5 k.; cpl. 57; a. 4 32-pdr.)
Daylight a screw steamer, was built in 1859 by Samuel Sneden of New York; chartered by the Navy 10 May 1861; purchased 12 October 1861; outfitted at New York Navy Yard; and commissioned 7 June 1861, Commander S. Lockwood in command. Daylight put to sea 7 June 1861 for duty in the waters of Virginia and along the Atlantic coast as far south as Wilmington, N.C., where she assisted in the establishment of the blockade. She served as guard and picket ship and captured four vessels carrying contraband, recapturing one which attempted to escape, before arriving at Baltimore, Md., 3 December for repairs.
Cheers,
USS ALASKA
Virginia. USS Daylight, Commander Lockwood, silenced a Confederate battery attacking the American ship John Clark anchored in Lynnhaven Bay.
1861 October 10th
October 10 1861 Wednesday Operations at the Mouth of the Mississippi Go to October 11 1861 Florida. Confederate troops at Tampa Bay captured the American sloop William Batty. Louisiana. The USS Nia…
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The gunboat USS Daylight. Alfred Rudolph Waud (1828-1891) Originally built in 1859 for operation on Long Island Sound as a merchant steamer, Daylight was purchased by the Navy in 1861 and used as a gunboat through the American Civil War. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division. Public domain This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1930.
USS Daylight
(ScStr: t. 682; l. 170'; b. 30'6"; dr. 13'; s. 5 k.; cpl. 57; a. 4 32-pdr.)
Daylight a screw steamer, was built in 1859 by Samuel Sneden of New York; chartered by the Navy 10 May 1861; purchased 12 October 1861; outfitted at New York Navy Yard; and commissioned 7 June 1861, Commander S. Lockwood in command. Daylight put to sea 7 June 1861 for duty in the waters of Virginia and along the Atlantic coast as far south as Wilmington, N.C., where she assisted in the establishment of the blockade. She served as guard and picket ship and captured four vessels carrying contraband, recapturing one which attempted to escape, before arriving at Baltimore, Md., 3 December for repairs.
Cheers,
USS ALASKA
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