USS Yucca (1864)

Career (US)
Laid down:	date unknown
Launched:	1864
Acquired:	25 February 1865
Commissioned:	3 April 1865
Out of service:	1868
Struck:	1868 (est.)
Fate:	sold, 26 August 1868
General characteristics
Displacement:	373 tons
Length:	145 ft 7 in (44.37 m)
Beam:	23 ft 7 in (7.19 m)
Depth of hold:	11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Propulsion:	steam engine screw-propelled
Speed:	not known
Complement:	not known
Armament:	one 30-pounder Parrott rifle one 12-pounder smoothbore gun

USS Yucca (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat in support of the Union Navy security of Confederate waterways.

Commissioned in Boston shortly before civil war’s end

Yucca -- a wooden-hulled screw steamer built in 1864 by Donald McKay at East Boston, Massachusetts -- was purchased by the Navy on 25 February 1865 and was commissioned at Boston on 3 April 1865, Acting Master Henry C. Wade in command.

Assigned to patrol the Gulf Station

Commissioned just six days before General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia effectively ending the American Civil War, Yucca saw no combat in that or any other conflict. Her period of active service covered only three years, most of which she spent on the Gulf Station in the Gulf of Mexico.

Placed in ordinary

By 1868, she had moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she was placed in ordinary.

Post-war decommissioning and sale

On 26 August 1868, Yucca was sold at Portsmouth to Mr. R. M. Funkhauser.

References

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

See also

• United States Navy
• American Civil War

External links

• USS Yucca