USS Flambeau (1861)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Flambeau |
| Builder: | Lawrence & Foulks (NY) |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1861 |
| Acquired: | 14 November 1861 |
| Commissioned: | 27 November 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 June 1865 |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 12 July 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 850 tons |
| Length: | 180 ft (55 m) |
| Beam: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Draught: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Speed: | not known |
| Complement: | not known |
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USS Flambeau (1861) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat, operating in Confederate waterways.
Flambeau was built in 1861 by Lawrence and Foulks, Brooklyn, New York; purchased by the Navy 14 November 1861; and commissioned 27 November 1861, Lieutenant Commander W. G. Temple in command.
Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Flambeau arrived at Nassau, New Providence, 11 December 1861, and for a month patrolled this key base for blockade runners. On 22 January 1862, Flambeau arrived at Port Royal, South Carolina, from which she was ordered to blockade Stono Inlet, one of the entrances to Charleston Harbor.
For the next year, she cruised off Charleston, sharing in the capture of several prizes, and sending a party ashore 28 December to destroy the abandoned fort on Bull's Island. Returning to Bull's Bay on 31 January 1863, she sent a foraging party ashore, all of whom were captured. The following day, the Flambeau landed a rescue party, but it was intercepted and had one man killed and one wounded in the ensuing skirmish.
In February 1863, Flambeau delivered stores to ships on the coasts of Florida and Georgia, then returned to duty off Charleston until April. After repairs at Washington, D.C., she joined her squadron at New Inlet from May through September, taking schooner Betty Kratzer prize on 23 June. She then served at Fernandina, Florida, where on 28 November she took the schooner John Gilpin prize. She returned to New York City where between 10 February 1864 and 2 June she was out of commission for repairs.
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