![]() USS Alexandria by Ens. D. M. N. Stouffer, ca. 1864–65
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Ordered | as St. Mary |
Laid down | date unknown |
Launched | date unknown |
Completed | 1862 |
Commissioned | 12 December 1863 |
Decommissioned | 7 August 1865 |
Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
Captured |
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Fate | Sold, 17 August 1865 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 60 tons |
Length | 89 ft 9 in (27.36 m) |
Beam | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
Draft | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
Depth of hold | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 3 to 4 knots |
Complement | not known |
Armament |
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USS Alexandria was a side-wheel steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a dispatch boat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
Although surviving records are not conclusive, it seems that after the prize had been repaired, Admiral Porter may have used the steamer in the autumn as a non-commissioned dispatch boat. However, the side-wheeler was placed in commission as Alexandria at Cairo, Illinois, on 12 December 1863.
She served in the 1st District of the Mississippi Squadron and operated between Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and Cairo, Illinois.
After the collapse of the Confederacy, the ship was decommissioned at Cairo, Illinois, on 7 August 1865 and sold at auction at Mound City, Illinois, on 17 August 1865 to W. Markham of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Documented as Alexandria on 4 October 1865, the ship served on the Mississippi River and her tributaries until lost sometime in 1867. No documents containing specific information on her destruction seem to have survived.