USS Lily (1862)

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Ordered: as Jessie Benton
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: date unknown
Acquired: 30 September 1862
In service: 19 October 1862
Out of service: 28 May 1863
Struck: 1863 (est.)
Fate: sunk, 28 May 1863
General characteristics
Displacement: 50 long tons (50 t)
Length: not known
Beam: not known
Draft: not known
Propulsion: steam engine
Speed: not known
Complement: not known
Armament: not known

USS Lily (1862) was a tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.

Lily, a steam tugboat, was built as Jessie Benton, and purchased by the War Department 5 May 1862. Used by the Quartermaster Corps on the western rivers, she was known as Jessie until transferred to the Navy 30 September 1862, Acting Ens. R. H. Smith in command, and renamed Lily 19 October.

Assigned to the Mississippi Squadron

Assigned to Rear Adm. David Dixon Porter’s Mississippi Squadron, she served on the river, including duty during the Vicksburg campaign.

Sunk during collision with an ironclad

Lily was sunk near Chickasaw Bayou in the Yazoo River in collision with ironclad ram Choctaw 28 May 1863.

References

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

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