USS Hendrick Hudson
Hendrick Hudson
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  United States
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| Ordered: | as Florida |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1859 |
| Acquired: | 20 September 1862 |
| Commissioned: | 30 December 1862 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 August 1865 |
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| Displacement: | 460 tons |
| Length: | 171 ft (52 m) |
| Beam: | 29 ft 11 in (9.12 m) |
| Draught: | depth of hold 9' 6" |
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| Speed: | 11 knots |
| Complement: | not known |
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USS Hendrick Hudson (1859) was a schooner-rigged screw steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union blockade of the ports of the Confederate States of America.
Hendrick Hudson was built as Florida in 1859 at Greenpoint, New York. She was taken into the Confederate States Navy in 1862 as CSS Florida.
Hendrick Hudson was captured by USS Pursuit while attempting to run the blockade at St. Andrews Bay, Florida on 6 April 1862. She was taken to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for adjudication, where she was condemned and purchased by the United States Department of the Navy from the prize court on 20 September 1862. Renamed Hendrick Hudson, she commissioned 30 December 1862 at Philadelphia, Acting Master John E. Giddings commanding.
Assigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, Hendrick Hudson sailed to Hampton Roads, Virginia, arriving 3 January 1863, and from there proceeded to her blockading station off East Pass, St. George's Sound, Florida. On station 1 February, Hendrick Hudson began her long months of arduous blockade duty, working to shut off commerce through the multitude of small inlets and passes of the Florida coast.
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