USS Mystic (1853)

USS "Mystic" (1853) was a steamer acquired by the U.S. Navy prior to the American Civil War when she was known as the USS Memphis and served in the Paraguay expedition of 1858 and 1859.

During the American Civil War, she was used by the Union Navy as a gunship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

Constructed in Philadelphia in 1853 as a 452-ton steamship

"Mount Savage", a 452-ton (burden) screw steamship, was built in 1853 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was renamed "Memphis" in 1857.

Service, as USS "Memphis", in the Paraguay expedition

Chartered by the Navy in September 1858, she served as USS "Memphis" during the Paraguay expedition of late 1858 and early 1859.

Renamed USS "Mystic" by the Navy

The steamer was purchased by the Navy in May 1859 and renamed USS "Mystic" a few weeks later.

Capturing slave ships off the African coast

In June and July 1860, while operating off Africa, "Mystic" captured two slave ships.

Service during the American Civil War

During the first part of the Civil War "Mystic" served in the blockade of the Confederacy's Atlantic Ocean Coast. She assisted in the capture or destruction of four blockade runners off the coast of North Carolina in June-September 1862, among them the steamers "Emma" and "Sunbeam".

While in the process of taking the latter, on 28 September, she was damaged in collision with "State of Georgia".

Supporting the 1863 York River expedition

In May 1863 she supported the Union Army during an expedition up the York River and in September of that year seized a sailing vessel off Yorktown, Virginia.

"Mystic" was employed in the Chesapeake Bay region from late 1862 until the war's end.

Post-war decommissioning, sale and subsequent maritime career

USS "Mystic" was sold to private owners in June 1865. Renamed "General Custer", she disappeared from merchant vessel registers in 1868.

References

See also

* United States Navy
* American Civil War

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-m/mt-savge.htm USS Mystic]

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