USS Home (1862)

USS Home (1862)

USS "Home" (1862) was a large steamship purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was placed into service as a hospital ship assigned to support the fleet blockading the ports of the Confederate States of America.

However, on occasion, she was ordered to serve as a blockader and was provided with the necessary deck guns for that purpose.

Constructed at Brooklyn, New York, in 1862 as "Key West"

"Home", a screw steamer, was built as Key West in 1862 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York. She was purchased by the Navy at New York 14 August 1863, commissioned 21 August 1863, Acting Master W. H. Garfield commanding, and name changed to "Home".

Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockade

Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, "Home" sailed after commissioning for Charleston, South Carolina, towing monitor "Lehigh".

Designated as a “rest ship”

"Home" was assigned by Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren as a rest ship, to which the exhausted crews of the steaming monitors could retire after the fierce bombardments of early September.

Designated as a blockader and as a hospital ship

She remained off Charleston with periodic trips to Port Royal, South Carolina, for repairs until July 1864, when she was assigned to act as a hospital ship inside the bar at Charleston. While serving as a combination blockader-hospital ship her medical department was composed of Surgeons William Nicholas Pindell and Nelson Ingram, and the Surgeon Steward Frank Cook.

Multi-tasking lightship and reconnaissance duties

She continued her combination blockader-hospital ship service until mid-1865, when she took up lightship duties in the harbor. During this period "Home" also sent members of her crew ashore on boat expeditions in the Charleston area, notably 5 March 1865 when an important reconnaissance of Charleston harbor obstructions was effected.

Post-war deactivation and subsequent career

"Home" returned to New York City in August 1865 and decommissioned 24 August 1865. Redocumented "Key West", she returned to merchant service; she was stranded and lost off Cape Hatteras 12 October 1870.

References

See also

* United States Navy
* American Civil War

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h7/home.htm USS Home]


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