CSS Gunnison

CSS Gunnison was a torpedo tug purchased by the Confederate States of America to fight the United States in the American Civil War.

History

Probably built in Philadelphia and first owned in Troy, New York, Gunnison became the Confederate privateer A. C. Gunnison, commissioned at Mobile, Alabama, on 25 May 1861, and commanded by Captain P. G. Cook, a part owner. Sometime in 1862 she was acquired by the Confederate States Navy and fitted out as a dispatch and torpedo boat, carrying 150 pounds of powder on a spar over her bow. Her upperworks were protected by boiler iron sheathing.[1]

Gunnison was commanded first by Acting Master's Mate F. M. Tucker, CSN, and after 9 November 1863, by Midshipman E. A. Swain, CSN. Plans for her to attack USS Colorado, one of the Mobile Bay blockade ships, fell through. She was turned over to the United States Navy in April 1865 and kept in naval rather than army service as a good example, in Rear Admiral H. K. Thatcher's phrase, "of the heavier class of vessels".[1]

References

"Gunnison". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 23 March 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[danfs-1] "Gunnison". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Retrieved 23 March 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.