screw-steamer
121USS Norwich (1861) — USS Norwich , a wooden, screw steamer built at Norwich, CT., in 1861, was purchased by the United States Navy at New York City 26 September 1861 from J. M. Huntington Co.; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard 28 December 1861, Lieutenant… …
122USS Arctic — is the name of several ships of the U.S. Navy:*, was a screw steamer built by the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1855.*, was a sidewheel steamer built in 1873.*, was built in 1913 at Eagle Harbor, WA, by Hall Bros.*, was a steel hulled, single screw… …
123USS Huron (1861) — USS Huron (1862) was a 691 ton Unadilla class screw steam gunboat acquired by the Union Navy for blockage duty against the ports and rivers of the Confederate States of America. Huron , a schooner rigged screw steamer, was launched 21 September… …
124USS Primrose (1863) — USS Primrose (1863), a screw steamer tugboat, armed with a heavy rifled gun and a howitzer capable of dropping a 24 pound ball, was acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The tug Primrose , a wooden screw steamer, purchased as… …
125USS Ariel (1862) — was a captured Confederate schooner acquired by the Union Navy from the prize court during the American Civil War. She was put into service by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with… …
126USS Martin (1864) — was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy for various tasks, including those of a torpedo boat, tugboat, and a picket boat, patrolling Confederate waterways to prevent the South from… …
127USS Rose (1863) — was a screw steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat and ammunition ship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Commissioned in New York City as a… …
128Benjamin Leigh Smith — Benjamin Leigh Smith, b. 1828 – d. 1913, was a British yachtsman and Arctic explorer. Between 1871 and 1882 Mr. Smith undertook no less than five scientific expeditions to Svalbard and Franz Josef Land.Benjamin Leigh Smith was shipwrecked at Cape …
