Vessels sunk by Mines (Torpedoes) during the American Civil War

USS ALASKA

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What Union vessels in the Civil War were sunk by torpedoes other than the USS Cairo?

Partial listing...Union vessels

Alice Price
USS Althea
USS Baron DeKalb
USS Bazely
USS Cairo
USS Commodore Jones
USS Eastport
Genesee
Harriet A. Weed.
USS Harvest Moon
USS Housatonic.
USS Ida
USS Itasca
Jacob H. Vanderbilt
John B. White.
Lizzie Freeman
Maple Leaf
USS Milwaukee
USS Narcissus
USS Osage
USS Otsego
USS Patapsco
R. B. Hamilton
USS Rodolph
USS Rose
Rose Hambleton
USS Sciota
USS Tecumseh
Thorn
a launch from the USS Cincinnati.
cutter from USS Shawmut.

Confederate vessels lost to Confederate mines...

CSS Etiwan
CSS Marion
CSS A. H. Schultz
William Allison
A floating battery. Length 20 feet, beam 20 feet, height 8 feet, armor 1.5-foot iron, with 6-inch-thick oak on two sides. Armed with a total of six guns on three sides. Anchored 8 miles above Plymouth on the Roanoke River in 2.5–3 fathoms with 2–3 feet of casemate above water. Was sunk by a drifting Confederate torpedo and burned on April 8, 1865, by a launch from the USS Iosco and a cutter from the USS Mattabesett. Located at Gray’s Fisher. Was removed in 1873 under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (ORN, 12:107–8, 116; Chief of Engineers Report 1873, 76.) 'Encyclopedia of Civil War Ship Wrecks' by W. Craig Gaines

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USS ALASKA
 
Commodore Barney's violent end. 1863, think it was the same type of torpedo/mine Harper's left us a sketch of- recently came up in another thread.

barney 1.JPG

barney 2.JPG
 
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