USS Azalea (1864)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Azalea (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as an armed tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Azalea -- a wooden-hulled, screw tug built at Boston, Massachusetts, by McKay and Aldus was purchased by the Union Navy upon her completion on 31 March 1864. After her fitting out at the Boston Navy Yard, the tug was placed in commission on 7 June 1864, Acting Master Frederick W. Strong in command. Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Azalea (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as an armed tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Azalea -- a wooden-hulled, screw tug built at Boston, Massachusetts, by McKay and Aldus was purchased by the Union Navy upon her completion on 31 March 1864. After her fitting out at the Boston Navy Yard, the tug was placed in commission on 7 June 1864, Acting Master Frederick W. Strong in command. Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the new tug arrived off the bar outside Charleston, South Carolina, on 17 June 1864 and immediately took station in the outer cordon of Union warships striving to seal off that major port which, as the birthplace of secession, held great symbolic significance for the Confederacy in addition to its substantial strategic value.
