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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Norfolk Packet (1862-1865)
USS Norfolk Packet, a 349-ton mortar schooner, was built in 1851 at East Haddam, Connecticut, as a civilian vessel. She was purchased by the Navy in September 1861 and commissioned in February 1862 after conversion to a warship. During the next several months, she operated on the lower Mississippi River, participating in bombardments of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans, in April and Vicksburg, Mississippi, in June and July.
Transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in November 1862, Norfolk Packet served off South Carolina, Georgia and Florida for the rest of the Civil War. She shelled Fort McAllister, Georgia, in March 1863 and later captured three sailing blockade runners. USS Norfolk Packet was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold a month later.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Norfolk Packet.
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a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 59288
Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June
1863, page 196, depicting the bombardment of Fort McAllister
by the U.S. Navy monitors Passaic, Patapsco and
Nahant. The engraving is based on a sketch by "an
eye-witness" on board USS Montauk, which is in the
right center foreground. In the left foreground, firing on the
fort, are the mortar schooners C.P. Williams, Norfolk
Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved
were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn
and tug Dandelion.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59287
Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863
Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The
Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 39. It depicts
the U.S. Navy monitors Patapsco, Passaic and Nahant
firing on Fort McAllister (at far left) from the Ogeechee River.
Other U.S. Navy ships are in the foreground. Montauk is
the monitor in this group (farthest from the artist). Firing
on the fort from the right foreground are mortar schooners, including
C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para.
Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon,
Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion, all screw
steamers.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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