- USS Philippi (1863)
USS "Philippi" (1863) was a
blockade runner captured by theUnion Navy during theAmerican Civil War . She served the Union Navy’s struggle against theConfederate States of America as a picket, patrol and dispatch vessel.Blockade runner "Ella" captured by USS "Howquah"
Union steamer "Howquah" discovered new and fast sidewheeler "Ella"
10 November 1863 steaming along the coast north ofFort Fisher, North Carolina . She immediately gave chase and fired a shot at the blockade runner which glanced off "Ella’s" gallows frame and caused her to surrender.The
Boston, Massachusetts ,Prize Court subsequently condemned the prize and sold her to the Navy23 February 1864 . Renamed "Philippi" four days later, the steamer commissioned early in April.Damaged and sank while assigned to the West Gulf blockade
"Philippi" was ordered to
New Orleans, Louisiana , on the 11th for duty in theWest Gulf Blockading Squadron , "Philippi" served the squadron as a picket, patrol, and dispatch vessel until set afire by Confederate artillery and destroyed while following AdmiralDavid Farragut ’s fleet intoMobile Bay 5 August 1864 .References
See also
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American Civil War
*Union Navy
*Confederate States Navy External links
* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p6/philippi.htm USS Philippi]
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