USS Red Rover (1859)
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 USS Red Rover |
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| Career |   |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | |
| Launched: | |
| Commissioned: | December 1862 |
| Decommissioned: | December 1865 |
| Status: | Decommissioned |
| Homeport: | Mound City, Illinois |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | |
| Length: | 256 ft (78 m) |
| Beam: | |
| Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam (SwStr) |
| Speed: | 8 kt (14.8 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 47, Medical dept. 30+ |
| Complement: | |
| Armament: | 1 x 32 pounder (14 kg) |
Red Rover, a 625-ton side-wheel river steamer, was built in 1859 at Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She was purchased by the Confederate Government in November 1861 and used as an accommodation ship at New Orleans, Louisiana. In early 1862, she aided the defense efforts at Columbus, Kentucky, and at the Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River, where she was captured on April 7. [1]
Commissioned as USS Red Rover in December 1862, she was used for the rest of the American Civil War as hospital ship for the Mississippi Squadron. Her medical complement included nurses from the Catholic order Sisters of the Holy Cross, the first female nurses to serve on board a Navy ship. In addition to caring for and transporting sick and wounded men, she provided medical supplies to Navy ships along the Western Rivers. Red Rover was stationed at Mound City, Illinois, from December 1864 until November 1865, when she was decommissioned and sold. [2]
[edit] References
- ^ USS Red Rover (1862 - 1865). US Naval Historical Center. U.S. Navy.
- ^ Historic Highlights of U.S. Navy Hospital Ships. United States Navy Military Sealift Command FactSheet. U.S. Navy.
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