USS Clyde, an 294-ton (burden) side-wheel steam gunboat, was built in 1861 at Glasgow, Scotland. In the Spring of 1863, under the name Neptune, she was employed as a blockade runner, making one successful voyage in and out of Mobile, Alabama, in May. On 14 June 1863, while attempting another trip to Mobile, she was captured by USS Lackawanna.
Purchased by the Navy in July and commissioned as USS Neptune, she was at Washington, D.C., during the following month. While there, she was renamed Clyde. In September 1863, the gunboat was sent back to the Gulf of Mexico, where she spent the rest of the Civil War operating along the Florida coast. Her activities included the capture of a sailing blockade runner soon after arriving on station, and taking part in boat expeditions up Florida rivers to seize Confederate cotton. USS Clyde was decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in August 1865 and sold in October. Resuming commercial employment as the steamer Indian River, she was wrecked at Indian River, Florida in early December 1865.
This page features our only view of USS Clyde.
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Page made 21 January 2003