USS Kensington (1861)

USS Kensington (1861)

USS "Kensington" was an American wooden sailing ship of 357 tons.

With the outbreak of the American Civil War, the aging whaling ship was purchased by the Union Navy at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on 28 October, 1861 for $4,000 to be used as part of the Stone Fleet and was sunk along with 15 other vessels on December 20, 1861, about four miles south-southeast of Fort Sumter and three miles east-southeast of the light on Morris Island, South Carolina. ["Treasures of the Confederate Coast: the "real Rhett Butler" & Other Revelations" by Dr. E. Lee Spence, (Narwhal Press, Charleston/Miami, 1995) [ISBN 1886391017] [ISBN 1886391009] , p. 146]

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k2/kensington-i.htm


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