Radford University
USS Sacramento 1863-1865
Average patrol for the USS Sacramento
Remarks on this 23 day of March 1864 At Sea
Commences
From Mid to 4 am
Averaged 43 revolutions and 20 lbs steam
From 4 to 8
Doubled clothe and shaw
Deck with saud at 4.40
Took me fort main to gallout
Studying pace. Averaged 44
Revolutions and 23 lbs steam
J.B. Ceghlan
From Meid to 4 PM
At 3.43 stopped engine
At 4 started engine
Averaged 44 revolutions and
23 lbs steam
From 4 to 6
Averaged 46 revolutions and
23 lbs steam
From 8 to mid
At 10,30 took me and furled
The top gallout sails at 10,35
Wind shifted to W.N.W braced
Sharp up. At 11, altered course
To S.W.S.n. Took in and
Furled all sail. At ll,30 hauled
Up an cause again S.W1/2.S
Averaged 44 revolutions and 23 lbs steam
From 6 to 8
Averaged 46 revolutions and
23 lbs steam
J.B. Ceghlan
Ship Biography
Built at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and launched from port on April 28th, 1862. During the Civil War the U.S.S Sacramento was used as a blockade ship off the shore of Wilmington, North Carolina. One of its most notable feats was the capture of the British blockade runner the Wanderer on May 1st, 1863. In 1864 the ship was reassigned to European waters to search for Confederate ships and would help blockade the C.S.S Rappahannock and observe the movements of the C.S.S Stonewall. The ship was decommissioned on the 21st of August, 1865 at the Boston Navy Yard and would later be recommissioned in 1866.
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