INDEX OF CIVIL WAR NAVAL FORCES - UNION SHIPS
United States Navy
Individual Ships
- USS Abeona [tinclad] [Description]
- USS Abraham [storeship] [Description]
- USS Adolph Hugel [mortar schooner] [Capsule history] [Historical incident] or [Similar page]
- USS Agamenticus [Monadnock class monitor] [History, photos]
- USS Agawam [History, roster, Photo] [Photos, James River, 1864; courtesy of Terry Foenander] [Discussion, photos] [Roster]
- USS Albatross [gunboat] [Description, illus.]
- USS Alexandria [History]
- USS Argosy [tinclad] [Illustration, brief notes]
- USS Atlanta [ironclad ram; formerly CSS Atlanta] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Baron DeKalb [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes] [Photo, history] [Description, illus.] [Story of theft aboard]
- USS Bazeley [steam tugboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Belle [steam tugboat] [Illustration, brief notes]
- Ben Gaylord [Illus.]
- USS Benton [ironclad gunboat] [Photos, brief notes] [Description, illus.]
- USS Blackhawk [river gunboat] [Photos, brief notes]
- Breaker [Capture of, Corpus Christi, TX, Aug 62]
- USS Brooklyn [frigate] [Roster]
- USS Cairo [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes] [Photos, history] [Colored illustration: Sinking of the Union Ironclad Gunboat USS Cairo by torpedoes in the Yazoo River; history]
- USS Camanche [Passaic class monitor] [History, photos] [Description, photos]
- USS Cambridge [Blockade incident, crew captured]
- USS Canonicus [Canonicus class monitor] [History, illustrations] [Desciption, photos] [Photo: James River, VA, taking on coal from a schooner] [Late photo]
- USS Carondelet [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Casco [coastal monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, photos] [Photo, James River, 1865]
- USS Catawaba [Canonicus class monitor] [Description, photo]
- USS Catskill [Passaic class monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, photos] [Photo: Deck and officers, 1865]
- USS Cayuga [Description, illus.]
- USS Ceres [Roster]
- USS Champion [tinclad] [Illustration, brief notes]
- USS Chattanooga [steamboat] [Photo, narrative of construction]
- USS Chickasaw [ironclad river monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Chillicothe [ironclad gunboat] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.]
- USS Chimo [Casco class monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Choctaw [ironclad river gunboat] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.]
- USS Cincinnati [Cairo class ironclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Commodore Barney [ferryboat, converted] [Brief notes]
- USS Commodore Hull [gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Commodore Morris [gunboat] [Roster]
- USS Commodore Perry [ferryboat, converted] [Description, photo] [Brief notes]
- USS Conestoga [timberclad side-wheel gunboat] [History, photos]
- USS Congress [frigate] [Illustration, on fire from CSS Virginia's guns]
- USS Constellation [frigate] [History, illustrations]
- USS Covington [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Cricket [inclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Cumberland [Sonar image]
- USS Dahlia [screw tugboat] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Daisy [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Dictator [monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, photos]
- USS Dunderberg [Description, illus.]
- USS Eastport [ironclad river gunboat] [Brief notes] [History] [Description, illus.]
- USS Elk [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Essex [casemate gunboat] [History, illustrations] [History, illustration] [Description, illus.]
- USS Fairplay [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- Fanny [steam transport] [Capture of, Oct 61]
- USS Fawn [tinclad; formerly Fanny Barker] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Fern [screw tugboat] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Florida [Roster]
- USS Forest Rose [tinclad] [History, photo]
- USS Fort Donelson [Photo: former Confederate blockade-runner, Robert E. Lee, 1864]
- USS Fort Henry [side-wheel steamer] [Reenactors' page: outline history, roster, illustrations]
- USS Fort Hindman [tinclad] [History, photos]
- Galena [ironclad sloop] [History, photos] [Photo, James River, VA, 1862: deck and damaged stack]
- USS General Bragg [side-wheel steamer] [History, photos]
- General Grant [tinclad, USS Grand Gulf] [Description, illus.]
- USS General Lyon [side-wheel river steamer] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS General Price [side-wheel river steamer] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS General Sherman [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Genesee [History, illustrations]
- USS Glide [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Great Western [tinclad] [Brief notes]
- Hannah [Destruction of, Corpus Christi, TX, Aug 62]
- USS Hartford [frigate] [Description, illus.] [Roster]
- USS Harvest Moon [Capsule history, specifications, Photos]
- USS Hatteras [side-wheel gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Henry [Internal rules, regulations]
- USS Hornet [side-wheel gunboat; formerly Confederate Lady Sterling] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Housatonic [Ossippee class steam screw sloop] [Illustration, brief notes] [Colored illustration: Sinking the USS Housatonic off Charleston, SC, February 17, 1864; history]
- USS Hunchback [side-wheel gunboat] [Photos, brief notes] [Description, illus.] [Photo essay]
- USS Indianola [ironclad river gunboat] [History, illustrations]
- USS Itasca [schooner] [Description, illus.]
- J. R. Williams [steamboat] [Illustrations, history]
- USS Kansas [gunboat] [Photo]
- USS Kearsarge [Mohican class steam sloop] [Photos, brief notes] [Description, from Dictionary of American Fighting Ships] [Reenactors' page: history, Photos] [Photo: Capt. Winslow and officers after sinking the C.S.S. Alabama] [Colored illustration: C.S.S. Alabama and USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; history] [History, illustration]
- USS Keokuk [twin-turret monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.]
- USS Key West [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Kickapoo [ironclad river monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Lafayette [ironclad river gunboat] [History, illustrations]
- Lancaster [side-wheel towboat, ram] [Illustration, brief notes]
- USS Lehigh [Passaic class monitor] [History, photos] [Description, photos]
- USS Lexington [side-wheel steamer] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Leyden [steam tugboat] [Photos, brief notes]
- Linda [transport] [Photo: Linda with monitor, Deep Bottom, VA]
- USS Linden [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- Lioness [stern-wheel steamer, ram] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Louisville [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Mackinaw [Description, photos]
- USS Mahopac [Canonicus class monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, photos]
- USS Malvern [History, illustration] [Photo: Adm. David D. Porter and staff, Hampton Roads, VA, 1864]
- USS Manayunk [Canonicus class monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Manhattan [Canonicus class monitor] [History, illustrations]
- Maple Leaf [Roster]
- USS Maratanza [Photo: James River, VA, 1862]
- USS Maria Denning [side-wheel steamer] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Marmora [tinclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Massassoit [Description, illus.]
- USS Mattabesett [Sassacus class side-wheel gunboat] [Illustration, brief notes]
- USS Mendota [side-wheel gunboat] [Photo]
- USS Miami [side-wheel gunboat] [Roster, 1864] [Description, Photos]
[Similar photos]
- USS Michigan [ironclad side-wheel steamer] [Capsule history, photo] [Brief notes, photos]
- USS Milwaukee [river monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.]
- Mingo [stern-wheel steamer, ram] [Illustration, brief notes]
- USS Minnesota [Illustration, roster]
- USS Mississippi [frigate] [Illustration]
- USS Monadnock [Monadnock class monitor] [History, illustrations]
- Monarch [side-wheel towboat, ram] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Monitor [coastal monitor] [Roster] [Photos, brief description] [History, illustrations] [Description, photo] [Illustrations, map, capsule history] [History, illustration, documents] [Description, illus.] [Postage stamp illustration] [Colored illustration: USS Monitor and C.S.S. Virginia ... March 9, 1862 ; history] [Historical notes] [Photo: turret, showing damage] [Photo: similar view] [Personal narrative, from Century Magazine, 1886, recounting loss of ship] [Photo: Sailors relaxing on deck, James River, VA] [Photo: similar view, with cookstove] [Photo: Officers grouped by the turret, 1862] [Maps, illustrations]
- USS Monongahela [steam screw sloop] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Montauk [Passaic class monitor] [History, description]
- USS Monticello [steam screw gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes] [Incident, Sewell's Point, VA, May 61]
- USS Morning Light [Brief notes, roster]
- USS Mound City [Cairo class ironclad] [In assault against St. Charles; history, Photo, casualties] [History, illustrations]
- USS Nahant [Passaic class monitor] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Naiad [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Nantucket [Passaic class monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Narragansett
- USS Neosho [ironclad river monitor] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS New Hampshire [Photo: Powder monkey by gun]
- USS New Ironsides [ironclad frigate] [History, illustrations] [Roster] [Description, photos]
- USS Niagara [steam frigate] [Roster]
- USS Nymph [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Onondaga [twin-turret monitor] [History, photos] [Description, photos] [Colored illustration, patrolling the James River, history] [Description, illus.] [Photo, Aiken's Landing, 1864] [Similar Photo] [Photo: Soldiers in rowboat, James River, VA, 1864]
- USS Osage [Neosho class ironclad monitor] [Photos, brief notes] [Description, illus.]
- USS Ossipee [steam screw-sloop] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Otsego [Sassacus class side-wheel gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Ottawa [Reenactors' page: capsule history]
- USS Ouachita [tinclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Ozark [ironclad river monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Passaic [monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description] [Description, illus.]
- USS Patapsco [Passaic class monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Pawnee [Photo: Adm. John A. Dahlgren] [Photo: Adm. John A. Dahlgren (5th from left) and staff, Charleston Harbor] [Photo: Crew, starboard battery, quarterdeck, Charleston Harbor] [Photo: Charleston Harbor, howitzer on deck]
- USS Pensacola [steam frigate]
[Photo, in Alexandria, VA, 1861]
- USS Peosta [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes] [History, illustration] [Photo, history: Tennessee River voyages]
- USS Petrel [OR reports of capture, 22 April 64]
- USS Philadelphia [Photo: Officers in front of pilot house] [Colored Photo: Salvaged vessel, forward half]
- USS Pittsburg[h] [Cairo class ironclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Planter [side-wheel steamship] [Description, Photos]
- USS Potomac
- USS Powhatan [steam frigate] [Photo]
- USS Prairie Bird [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Preble [sloop] [History]
- USS Princeton [screw steamer] [Illusrations, brief notes]
- USS Queen City [tinclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Queen of the West [side-wheel towboat] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.]
- USS Rattler [tinclad] [Illustration, discussion of gunboats] [Photos, brief notes] [History]
- USS Red Rover [side-wheel steamer] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Richmond [steam frigate] [Brief notes, photos]
- USS Roanoke [ironclad steam frigate] [History, illustrations] [Description, photos]
- USS Rodolph [tinclad] [Illustration, brief notes]
- USS Sabine [school ship] [Photo] [Photo]
- USS Sacramento [steam screw-sloop] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS St. Clair [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS St. Louis [1st Eads ironclad gunboat, renamed Baron DeKalb, Oct 1862]
- Samson [stern-wheel steamer] [Illustration, brief notes]
- Samuel Orr [Capture of, Aug 61]
- USS Sangamon [Passaic class monitor] [History, photo] [Description, photos]
- USS Sassacus [side-wheel gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Saugus [Canonicus class monitor] [History, illustrations] [Description, photo] [Colored illustration: Firing on Confederate Ironclads in the James River, June 21, 1864; capsule history]
- USS Shamrock [Sassacus class side-wheel gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Shawnee [Casco class monitor] [Description, photo]
- USS Signal [tinclad] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Silver Lake [gunboat] [Photo, brief notes (scroll down)]
- USS Silver Cloud [tinclad] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS Southfield [side-wheel gunboat] [Illustration, brief notes] [Roster]
- USS Spuytin Duyvil [torpedo boat] [Description, illus.]
- USS Star of the West [Colored illustration, with blockade runner, Emily St. Pierre]
- Sultana [Sultana disaster, 1865: history, Photo; personal narratives]
[History, Photos] [Searchable database]
- Switzerland [side-wheel towboat, ram] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Tacony [Sassacus class side-wheel gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Tecumseh [Canonicus class monitor] [History, illustrations] [History, illustration]
- USS Tennessee [casemate ram; formerly CSS Tennessee] [History, illustrations]
- USS Ticonderoga [Lackawanna class screw sloop] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Tuscumbia [ironclad river gunboat] [History, illustrations] [Description, illus.]
- USS Tyler [timberclad] [Photos, brief notes] [Description, illus.]
- USS Unadilla [gunboat] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Undine [Description, illus.]
- USS United States [frigate; later CSS United States] [Illustrations, brief notes]
- USS Vermont [blocade vessel, storeship] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Vincennes [sloop-of-war] [Capsule history]
- USS Vindicator [side-wheel ram] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Volunteer [side-wheel steamer] [Photo, brief notes]
- USS W. H. Brown [side-wheel steamer] [Photo]
- USS Wabash [steam screw frigate] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Wachusett [Iroquois class screw sloop] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Washington Irving [transport] [Photo: Appomattox River, VA]
- USS Wassuc [Casco class monitor] [Description, photos]
- USS Weehawken [Passaic class monitor] [History, illustrations] [Colored illustration: Action with USS Weehawken, June 17, 1863] [Riding out a storm, illustration]
- USS Westfield [gunboat] [Description, illus.] [At Galveston] [Capsule history] [Similar page, illus.]
- USS Whitehead [gunboat] [Illustration, brief notes] [Roster]
- USS William H. Brown [stern-wheel steamer] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Winnebago [ironclad river monitor] [History, illustrations]
- USS Winona [Photo]
- USS Wyalusing [Sassacus class side-wheel steam gunboat] [Photos, brief notes]
- USS Wyandotte [Canonicus class monitor] [Description, photo]
- USS Yankee [Incident, Gloucester Point, VA, May 61]
- USS Yantic [3-masted bark] [History, photos]
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