USS Miami NH 55510

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USS Miami NH 55510

https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/people---special-topics/african-americans-in-the-navy/african-americans-and-the-navy--1860s-1890s/uss-miami-nh-55510.html

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Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command

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Navy Department Library, Naval History & Heritage Command

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USS Miami (side-wheel steamer)

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The first Miami, a side‑wheel, double‑ender gunboat, was launched by Philadelphia Navy Yard 16 November 1861; sponsored by Miss Ann Ingersoll; and commissioned there 29 January 1862, Lt. Abram Davis Harrell in command. The wooden‑hulled gunboat was ordered 5 February 1862 to proceed to Ship Island, Miss., for duty in the Mortar Flotilla organized to neutralize Confederate riverside forts during Admiral Farragut's impending attack on New Orleans. Miami reached Ship Island 19 March and headed f...