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USS Mary Sanford

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She was used by the Union Navy for various tasks, including carrying supplies and acting as a hospital ship, a picket ship, and as a tugboat.
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13 July. Redocumented 16 August 1865, she continued to serve American commerce until 1871.
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the 18th. She arrived Morris Island 1 November with ordnance stores, departing as a
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served as a transport during 1863, ferrying sick men to northern ports, towing tug
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decommissioned 21 June 1865 at Philadelphia and was sold there at
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24 December in the expedition to Murrell's Inlet to destroy a
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American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States
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steam engine
steamer
Union Navy
American Civil War
Stonington, Connecticut
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New York Navy Yard
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
John Adams
Morris Island
Port Royal, South Carolina
buoys
Hampton Roads
gunboat
schooner
Confederates
Charleston, South Carolina
Big Satilla River
Braziliera
White Oak Creek, Georgia
public auction
public domain
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
here
Categories
Ships built in Connecticut
1862 ships
Ships of the Union Navy
Steamships of the United States Navy
Gunboats of the United States Navy

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