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USS Mystic was a steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy prior to the American Civil War when she was known as the USS Memphis and served in the Paraguay expedition of 1858 and 1859. During the American Civil War , she was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
USS Memphis may refer to: . USS Memphis (1853), was a wooden five-gun crew steamer chartered by the US Navy for the Paraguay expedition and renamed Mystic 14 June 1859 USS Memphis (1862), was a civilian steamship purchased by the US Navy from a prize court 4 September 1862 and was decommissioned and sold 8 May 1869
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum Y Tennessee: Memphis: Mississippi River Museum: Texas: Corpus Christi: USS Lexington on the Bay Museum: Texas: Fredericksburg: Chester Nimitz Museum of the Pacific War: Texas: Galveston: Seawolf Park: Texas: Galveston: Texas Seaport Museum: Y Texas: Galveston: Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum: Texas
This section of the list of United States Navy ships contains all ships of the United States Navy with names beginning with M. . For a list exclusively of currently commissioned ships, see the List of current ships of the United States Navy.
Memphis was commissioned on 4 February 1925, with future Admiral, Captain Henry E. Lackey in command. [3] Memphis was 550 feet (170 metres) long at the waterline with an overall length of 555 feet 6 inches (169.32 metres), her beam was 55 feet 4 inches (16.87 metres) and a mean draft of 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 metres
In remarks opening the ceremony, Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial CEO Marshall S Spevak described the historic ship as a “tapestry of 45,000 sailors and Marines."
After fitting out at New Albany, Indiana, Monarch began active duty with the Ram Fleet. Steaming downriver in May 1862, she scouted Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in June 1862 and joined her sister ship, the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Queen of the West, and the ironclad gunboats USS Benton, USS Cairo, USS Carondelet, USS Louisville, and USS St. Louis in the Battle of Memphis on 6 June 1862.
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