USS Bignonia (1863)

Career (US)	Union Navy Jack
Name:	USS Bignonia
Ordered:	as Mary Grandy
Laid down:	date unknown
Launched:	1863 at Cleveland, Ohio
Acquired:	2 August 1864
Commissioned:	14 September 1864
Decommissioned:	12 July 1865
Fate:	sold, 12 July 1865
General characteristics
Type:	Tugboat
Displacement:	321 long tons (326 t)
Length:	131 ft (40 m)
Beam:	22 ft (6.7 m)
Draft:	10 ft 8 in (3.25 m)
Propulsion:	Steam engine screw-propelled
Speed:	10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement:	50
Armament:	1 × 30-pounder rifle 2 × 12-pounder smoothbore guns

USS Bignonia (1863) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

Acquired by the Union Navy in Cleveland, Ohio

Bignonia, a screw tug, was built in 1863 at Cleveland, Ohio, as Mary Grandy; purchased by the Union Navy on 2 August 1864; and commissioned on 14 September 1864, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant W. D. Roath in command.

Civil War service

Until April 1865, Bignonia served with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron as a tug. She was reassigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron in April 1865.

Post-war decommissioning and sale

Bignonia was decommissioned there and sold on 12 July 1865.

See also

• United States Navy
• American Civil War

References

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

External links

• USS Bignonia