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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Nymph (1864-1865, "Tinclad" # 54)

USS Nymph, a 171-ton stern-wheel "tinclad" river gunboat, was built in 1863 at Cincinnati, Ohio, as the civilian steamer Cricket Number 3. Purchased by the Navy in March 1864, she was converted to a gunboat and commissioned in April. Nymph was thereafter part of the Mississippi Squadron and patrolled the great Western Rivers to supress Confederate activities during the final year of the Civil War. In June 1865, after the conflict's end, she was decommissioned. USS Nymph was sold in August 1865 and apparently reverted to her original name for civilian employment.

This page features our only view of USS Nymph.

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Photo #: NH 44764

USS Nymph (1864-1865)


Photographed on the Western Rivers, during 1864-65.
What appears to be a anti-mine rake is fitted to her bow.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 610 x 765 pixels

 


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28 December 1999