USS Resolute (1860)
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USS Resolute at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 1861
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| Namesake: | Resolute: marked by firm determination; resolved (previous name retained) |
| Laid down: | unknown date |
| Launched: | 1865 |
| Acquired: | 7 May 1861 |
| Commissioned: | 12 May 1861 |
| Decommissioned: | 26 May 1865 |
| Struck: | est. 1865 |
| Fate: | sold, 24 June 1865 |
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| Displacement: | 90 tons |
| Length: | 88 ft 2 in (26.87 m) (reg.) |
| Beam: | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
| Draught: | depth of hold 7’5” |
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| Speed: | 10 knots |
| Complement: | 17 |
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| Armour: | wood |
The first USS Resolute (1860) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
She was purchased by the Union Navy to be part of the fleet of ships stationed in coastal waterways to prevent blockade runners from entering or departing ports of the Confederacy. She served as a gunboat and, at times, as a ship's tender and, at war's end, was sold at auction.
Resolute, a wooden, screw tug built in 1860 at Keyport, New Jersey, was purchased by the Navy 7 May 1861 from A. Degroot of New York City; and commissioned 12 May 1861, Acting Master William Budd in command.
Assigned to the Union Navy's Potomac Flotilla, Resolute went into action 29 May 1861 in company with USS Thomas Freeborn, USS Anacostia, and Navy landing parties against Confederate shore batteries at Aquia Creek, Virginia.
While returning from a voyage up the Potomac River to make topographical observations with Capt. W. R. Palmer, USA, on board, Resolute captured and burned the schooner Somerset 8 June 1861 in Breton Bay.
While patrolling upriver 7 July, she encountered and successfully swept two Confederate moored mines, among the first of their kind used in the Civil War. The enterprising tug captured the coaster Ocean Wave 18 July 1861 after a long chase off the mouth of the Great Wicomico River but lost three killed and one wounded 15 August when her boat unsuccessfully attempted to capture a Confederate boat at Lower Cedar Point, Virginia.
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