USS A. J. View (1861)

USS A. J. View (1861)

USS "A. J. View" (1861) – a Confederate States of America schooner -- was captured during the beginning of the American Civil War by the Union Navy.

"A. J. View" was outfitted as a collier, supplying coal to Union ships with steam engines. Her record of activity is sparse.

Capture by Union forces

Early in the afternoon of 28 November 1861, while cruising in Mississippi Sound, the Union screw steamer "New London" fell in with and seized "A. J. View" off Pascagoula, Mississippi, as that Biloxi, Mississippi, schooner attempted to slip out to sea.

The prize's cargo was unloaded at Ship Island, Mississippi, and the schooner herself may have been used for sometime thereafter by the Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Civil War service

At some later date, after she had sailed north for adjudication, "A. J. View" was finally condemned by the admiralty court at New York City and was sold to the Navy on 28 July 1863 -- almost two years after she had been captured.

She was used as a coal hulk, but no record of the place or places where she performed this service has been found.

References

ee also

* American Civil War
* Union Navy
* Confederate States Navy

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a1/a_j_view.htm USS A. J. View]


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