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USS Kanawha (1862-1866)

USS Kanawha, a 691-ton Unadilla class screw steam gunboat, was built at East Haddam, Connecticut. Commissioned in January 1862, she served along the Confederacy's Gulf of Mexico coast throughout the Civil War. From February 1862 into 1864, Kanawha operated off the entrances to Mobile Bay, Alabama, taking, destroying or assisting in the capture or destruction of some sixteen blockade runners, all but one of them sailing vessels. In the spring of 1864, the gunboat moved to the Texas coast, where she eliminated three more blockade runners, including the steamer Matagorda. With the end of the conflict in May 1865, Kanawha was sent north. She decommissioned in July 1865 and was sold in June 1866. Converted to a sailing bark and renamed Mariano, she was in merchant service until at least 1878.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Kanawha (1862-1866).


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Photo #: NH 2016

USS Kanawha (1862-1866)


Lithograph by Shearman & Hart, New York, circa 1861, entitled "U.S. Steam Gun Boat 'Kanawha'. Built by C.E. & W.H. Goodspeed. East Haddam, Conn.".
This image was issued with different titles to represent many, if not all, of the U.S. Navy's "90-Day Gunboats".

Collection of Commander Charles Moran, USNRF.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 560 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 1855

USS Kanawha (1862-1866)


19th Century phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, depicting Kanawha "cutting out a blockade runner from under the guns of Fort Morgan", at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama.
There is no record of Kanawha capturing a steam blockade runner as depicted here, though she took several prizes while enforcing the blockade of Mobile Bay.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 


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