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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Muscoota (1865-1869)

USS Muscoota, a 1370-ton Mohongo class iron "double-ender" steam gunboat, was built at Greenpoint, New York. Commissioned in January 1865, she was at Norfolk, Virginia, in May 1865 when ordered to Key West as part of an effort to prevent Confederate President Jefferson Davis escaping abroad. Muscoota remained in the Gulf of Mexico area at least until August 1866, when she was sent north in response to a serious outbreak of Yellow Fever among her crew. Sold in June 1869, she subsequently became the merchant steamship Tennessee.

This page features our only view of USS Muscoota (1865-1869).

For a picture of this ship after she left Navy service, see:

  • Steamship Tennessee (1869-1870).


    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 63884

    USS Muscoota (1865-1869)


    Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1951, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I.

    Courtesy of Erik Heyl.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 390 pixels

     

    For a picture of this ship after she left Navy service, see:

  • Steamship Tennessee (1869-1870).


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


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