USS Lavender (1864)

History
United States
Ordered: as Mayflower
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: 1864
Acquired: 25 May 1864
Commissioned: June 1864
Fate: Sunk 12 June 1864
General characteristics
Displacement: 173 tons
Length: 112 ft (34 m)
Beam: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Draught: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m)
Propulsion:
Speed: not known
Complement: 23
Armament: two 24-pounder guns

USS Lavender (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a tugboat.

Lavender, a tug built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1864 as Mayflower, was purchased there by the Navy 25 May 1864.

Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockade

Ordered to proceed off Charleston, South Carolina, for duty with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Lavender, acting Master John H. Gleason in command, departed the Delaware Capes 11 June.

Lavender strikes a reef and is wrecked

Shortly before midnight on the 12th, she struck a reef off North Carolina during a severe squall. Efforts to get her free were thwarted when water entered her engine room and put out her fires. The wooden steamer was completely wrecked and nine of her crew were lost before Army steamer John Farrow rescued 14 survivors three days later.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

See also

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