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

Steamship Tennessee (1869-1870)

Tennessee, an iron side-wheel steamship, was originally completed in 1865 as USS Muscoota. After the Navy sold her to private owners in June 1869, she was extensively rebuilt for merchant employment and renamed Tennessee. The ship had only a short civilian career, as she was destroyed by fire near Little River, North Carolina, on 29 June 1870.

This page features our only view of the steamship Tennessee, originally USS Muscoota.

For an image of this ship prior to entering merchant service, see:

  • USS Muscoota (1865-1869).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 63894

    SS Tennessee
    (American Steamship, 1869-1870)

    Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I.
    This steamer was formerly the U.S. Navy gunboat Muscoota.

    Courtesy of Erik Heyl.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 405 pixels

     

    For an image of this ship prior to entering merchant service, see:

  • USS Muscoota (1865-1869).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    18 March 2001