USS R. R. Cuyler (1860)
USS R. R. Cuyler
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  United States
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| Cost: | $142,000 |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1860, in New York |
| Acquired: | May 1861 |
| Commissioned: | circa June 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1865 |
| Struck: | est. 1865 |
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| Displacement: | 1,200 tons |
| Length: | 237 ft (72 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 3 in (10.13 m) |
| Draught: | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
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| Speed: | 14 knots |
| Complement: | not known |
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USS R. R. Cuyler was a steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted by the Union Navy as a gunboat and was assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.
She was named for the president of the Central Georgia Railroad.
R. R. Cuyler was built in 1860 by Samuel Sneeden of New York for H. B. Cromwell & Company, served on that company's New York, Havana, and New Orleans line until laid up in March 1861 at the start of the American Civil War.
Then chartered by the War Department, she transported New York State militiamen to Washington, D. C. and returned to New York where she was acquired by the navy in May 1861, although not formally purchased until August.
In early June, R. R. Cuyler departed New York City under the command of Captain Francis B. Ellison. On the 9th, she arrived at Key West, Florida, whence she proceeded north for blockade duty off Tampa, Florida. Although plagued by the presence of smallpox among her crew, R. R. Cuyler participated in the capture and burning of Finland in Apalachicola Bay on 26 August. On 22 November, while operating near and in the Mississippi River, she intercepted and assisted in the capture of the steamers A. J. View and Henry Lewis. In December, the sloops Advocate, Express, and Osceola and the schooners Delight and Olive met a similar fate. On 20 January 1863, off Mobile Bar, R. R. Cuyler seized the schooner J. W. Wilder. Two months later, she captured the schooner Grace E. Baker off Cuba, and on 3 May, the schooner Jane at sea.
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