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USS Julia (1863)

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History
United States
In service15 February 1863
Out of service1865
Captured8 January 1863
Fatebroken up, 1865
General characteristics
Displacement10 tons
Propulsionsail
Complement7

USS Julia was a sloop captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tender ship in support of the Union Navy.

Service history

Julia was an English sloop operating out of Nassau, Bahamas, captured by Union gunboat Sagamore on 8 January 1863. When taken some 10 miles north of Jupiter Inlet, Florida, she was attempting to slip through the Union blockade laden with salt badly needed by the Confederacy. She was taken to Key West, Florida, where she was condemned by a prize court and sold to the U.S. Navy. She was placed in service 15 February 1863, with Acting Master's Mate L. C. Coggeshall in charge, and used as a tender to Northern blockaders along the coast. Tahoma, Pursuit, and Eugenie were among the ships she assisted during the war. On 20 February 1863, she shared in the capture of the bark Stonewall. Julia was sold and broken up at Key West in 1865.

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