USS Commodore Hull (1862)
USS Commodore Hull
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| Name: | USS Commodore Hull |
| Namesake: | Commodore Isaac Hull |
| Ordered: | as Nuestra Senora de Regla |
| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | in 1860 at New York |
| Acquired: | 1 September 1862 |
| Commissioned: | 27 November 1862 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 June 1865 at the New York Navy Yard |
| Struck: | 1865 (est.) |
| Fate: | sold, 27 September 1865 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Gunboat |
| Displacement: | 376 long tons (382 t) |
| Length: | 141 ft (43 m) |
| Beam: | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
| Draft: | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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| Speed: | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement: | Unknown |
| Armament: | 2 × 30-pounder rifles, 4 × 24-pounder smoothbore guns |
USS Commodore Hull (1862) was a ferryboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.
Commodore Hull – a side-wheel ferryboat – was built at New York City in 1860 (or 1861) as the civilian ferryboat Nuestra Señora del Regla, intended for use at Havana, Cuba. Purchased by the Union Navy on 1 September 1862, she was converted to a gunboat and commissioned on 27 November 1862, Acting Master W. G. Saltonstall in command.
Commodore Hull was named in honor of Commodore Isaac Hull (1773–1843), a significant U.S. Naval commander during and after the War of 1812. There were four subsequent USS Hulls, all destroyers.
Commodore Hull's ferryboat design made her especially useful for operations in sheltered waters, so she was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and operated along the coasts and rivers of Virginia and North Carolina. She took part in the siege of Washington, N.C. from 30 March–16 April 1863.
In Albemarle Sound, she took part in the 5 May 1864 Battle of Albemarle Sound with the Confederate ironclad CSS Albemarle. As a picket, Commodore Hull was the first to sight the formidable ram approaching and fired at her from close quarters in the three-hour engagement.
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