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

USS Vindicator (1864-1865)

USS Vindicator, a 750-ton side-wheel steam ram, was built at New Albany, Indiana, for the War Department. After transfer to the Navy, she was completed in May 1864 and served with the Mississippi Squadron. Vindicator was initially assigned to patrol in the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi. In November 1864, she took part in an expedition up the Yazoo River, covering a Federal cavalry raid. As the Civil War approached its end, on 23-24 April 1865, she pursued the Confederate ram Webb during the latter's attempted escape from the Red River down the Mississippi to the open sea. USS Vindicator was decommissioned in July 1865 and sold the following November. Renamed New Orleans for post-war civilian use, she was disposed of in about 1869.

This page features our only views of USS Vindicator.

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Photo #: NH 49973

USS Vindicator (1864-1865)


Photographed on the Western Rivers in 1864-65, tied up to the shore.
Note glossy paint on her hull, possibly an indication that the photograph may have been taken when Vindicator was first commissioned.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 78KB; 615 x 675 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 49974

USS Vindicator (1864-1865)


Photographed on the Western Rivers in 1864-65, with boats tied up alongside.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 390 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 55835

USS Vindicator (1864-1865)


Sepia wash drawing by F. Muller, circa 1900, depicting the ship on the Western Rivers during the Civil War.

Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 


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19 March 2000