USS G. W. Blunt (1861)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS G. W. Blunt |
| Ordered: | as Blunt |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | date unknown |
| Acquired: | 23 November 1861 |
| Commissioned: | 4 December 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 13 May 1863 |
| In service: | 2 June 1863 |
| Out of service: | 16 August 1865 |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 20 October 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 121 tons |
| Length: | 76' 6" |
| Beam: | 20' 6" |
| Draught: | depth of hold 8' 9" |
| Propulsion: | schooner sail |
| Speed: | 10 knots |
| Complement: | not known |
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USS G. W. Blunt (1861) was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat as well as a dispatch boat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
Towards the war’s end, she was reconfigured as a rescue and salvage ship. Her new task was to remove many of the shipwrecks, hulks, and other in-water debris of war.
G. W. Blunt, formerly Blunt, was a wooden two-masted schooner acquired by the Navy in New York City 23 November 1861. She commissioned 4 December 1861, Acting Master Henry Sherwood in command.
Arriving at Port Royal, South Carolina, 11 December 1861, G. W. Blunt served as a mail and dispatch boat for the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron between such points as Charleston, South Carolina, Wassaw Sound, Georgia, and Fernandina, Florida. En route to Georgetown, South Carolina, 19 April 1862, she captured blockade-running schooner Wave with a cargo of cotton.
For the following year G. W. Blunt was on a blockade duty off Charleston and assisted in capturing several more vessels. She departed Port Royal, South Carolina, for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 May 1863 and decommissioned for repairs 13 May.
Recommissioned 2 June 1863, G. W. Blunt rejoined the blockading squadron off Charleston, patrolling the many small inlets and bays near the main harbor.
Cruising on Charleston station until midsummer 1864, G. W. Blunt was sent to Port Royal 7 August, and on 25 August was fitted with diving equipment for salvage duty.
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