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Photo # NH 2014:  USS Pontoosuc -- lithograph by Endicott & Co., circa 1865

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USS Pontoosuc (1864-1866)

USS Pontoosuc, a 1173-ton Sassacus class "double-ender" steam gunboat, was built at Portland, Maine. Commissioned in May 1864, she served off the Atlantic coast during the remaining year of the Civil War. During August 1864, the gunboat participated in the search for the Confederate raider Tallahassee. Late in that year, and in January 1865, Pontoosuc was one of the large fleet that bombarded Fort Fisher during the two assaults that ultimately seized that strategic position and eliminated Wilmington, North Carolina, as a blockade running port. She subsequently operated on the Cape Fear River during operations to capture Wilmington. With the end of the conflict, USS Pontoosuc was sent north to Boston, Massachusetts, where she decommissioned in July 1865. She was sold in October 1866.

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Photo #: NH 2014

USS Pontoosuc (1864-1866)


Lithograph published by Endicott & Co., New York, circa 1865.
This image was used in Endicott & Co. prints to represent many, if not all, of the Sassacus class "double-ender" gunboats.

Collection of Commander Charles Moran, USNRF, 1935.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 475 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 59170

"Second Attack upon Fort Fisher, showing the positions of the vessels, and the lines of fire", 13-15 January 1865


Chart by Walter A. Lane, published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II.
The positions of 58 ships are represented on the chart.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Page made 4 May 2001
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