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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- CIVILIAN SHIPS --

Stettin (English Steamship, 1861).
Served as USS Stettin in 1862-1865

Stettin, a 480 gross ton iron screw steamship, was built at Sunderland, England, in 1861. On 24 May 1862 she was captured by USS Bienville while attempting to break through the Federal blockade of Charleston, South Carolina. She was purchased by the U.S. Navy in September 1862, placed in commission as USS Stettin in November, and sent back to the waters off Charleston to help enforce the blockade. While so assigned, she captured, or had a role in capturing or destroying, four would be blockade runners, including the steamers Aries (28 March 1863), St. John's (18 April 1863), Havelock (11 June 1863) and Diamond (23 September 1863). USS Stettin left the war zone late in the conflict and was decommissioned in early April 1865. Sold to commercial interests in June and renamed Sheridan, she was lost through stranding on 24 September 1866.

This page features the only view we have concerning the steamer Stettin, which served as USS Stettin in 1862-1865.

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Photo #: NH 59365 "Our Prize Fleet, consisting of British Vessels captured while trying to run the Blockade." Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1862 volume. It depicts (from left to right) the blockade runners Petrel, Memphis, Elizabeth, Ella Warly, Patras, Alliance, Ann, Stettin, Circassian and Tubal Cain. Three of these vessels, Memphis, Stettin and Circassian later served in the U.S. Navy. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 144KB; 740 x 560 pixels

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