USS Flusser (1864)
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Name | USS Flusser |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | date unknown |
Acquired | 1864 |
In service | 1864 |
Out of service | 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Captured | by Union Navy forces in 1864 |
Fate | sold, 23 September 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | Unknown |
Length | 66 ft (20 m) |
Beam | Unknown |
Draft | Unknown |
Propulsion | Sail |
Speed | Varied |
Complement | Unknown |
Armament | None indicated |
USS Flusser (1864) was a schooner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
She was used by the Union Navy as a storeship whose duty was to supply other Union Navy ships with coal, ammunition, and other necessary provisions.
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Flusser — a 66 ft (20 m) schooner captured from the Confederates in 1864 but never libeled as a prize — was used as a coal hulk and to carry ordnance and stores to ships in the North Carolina sounds.
Flusser was sold at Washington, D.C. on 23 September 1865.
References[]
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Categories:
- United States naval ship stubs
- Ships of the Union Navy
- Schooners of the United States Navy
- Ammunition ships of the United States Navy
- Colliers of the United States Navy
- American Civil War auxiliary ships of the United States
- Stores ships of the United States Navy
- Coal hulks