USS G. L. Brockenborough (1862)

Career (US)	Confederate Navy Jack Union Navy Jack
Name:	USS G. L. Brockenborough
Laid down:	date unknown
Launched:	date unknown
Acquired:	15 November 1862
In service:	1862
Out of service:	27 May 1863
Struck:	1863 (est.)
Captured:	by Union Navy forces 15 October 1862
Fate:	ran aground and abandoned, 27 May 1863
General characteristics
Displacement:	not known
Length:	not known
Beam:	not known
Draught:	not known
Propulsion:	sail
Speed:	varied
Complement:	not known
Armament:	one howitzer

USS G. L. Brockenborough (1862) was a sloop captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

She was placed in service by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. She also served as a ship's tender, providing help to other ships on blockade duty.

Confederate sloop captured by Union Navy force

G. L. Brockenborough (also spelled Brockenboro or G. L. Brockenboro) was a small sloop captured 15 October 1862 by Fort McHenry, Lt. E. Y. McCauley. G. L. Brockenborough had apparently been used as a blockade runner and was discovered after being scuttled in the Apalachicola River, Florida. She was subsequently raised and purchased at the Prize Court in Key West, Florida, by Rear Admiral James L. Lardner 15 November 1862.

Assigned to the East Gulf Blockade

Assigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, G. L. Brockenborough's shallow draft made her an ideal vessel to blockade the many inlets of the Florida coast. She served as a blockader and tender to steamers Port Royal and Somerset in St. George's Sound and Apalachicola River, Florida. until she was abandoned after a severe gale had forced her aground in St. George's Sound 27 May 1863.

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 Brockenborough