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Myrtle (I)
ex
 US Army Tug Resolute

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Tug:
  • Built as Resolute, 1860 at Keyport, NJ
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Acquired by the War Department, May 7, 1861
  • Transferred from the War Department to the Navy, 30 September 1862
  • Placed in service as Myrtle, 15 October 1862
  • Assigned to RADM. David Dixon Porter's Mississippi Squadron
  • During the remainder of the Civil War she operated at Cairo, IL., providing tug and towing services for the squadron and serving as a dispatch boat on both the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers
  • Transferred to Naval Station Mound City, 8 August 1865
  • Sold at public auction 17 August 1865 to E. H. Ellis for $5,650
  • Final Disposition, boilers exploded on the lower Mississippi, 28 January 1897, killing one man
    Specifications:
    Displacement 90 t.
    Length 75'
    Beam 16'3"
    Depth of Hold 4' 7"
    Draft 6'
    Speed 10mph
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    two steam engines; cylinder diameter 15", stroke 16"
    sternwheel
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    Myrtle
    303024501    		 160k USED Myrtle underway probably on the lower Mississippi River with US Engineers office boat No. 68, prior to 1898
    University of Wisconsin-Madison LaCrosse Historic Steamboat Photograph Collection    		 John Spivey
    Myrtle (I)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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