USS Coeur de Lion (1861)

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The USS Coeur de Lion ( German for " Lionheart " ) was a ship of the United States Navy.

History

It was built in 1853 in Coxsackie taken on the Hudson River as a civilian steamer with 100 tons deadweight and Seitenradantrieb in operation. It was later used by the Light- House Board as a beacon provider. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, she was loaned to the Navy and equipped as a gunboat. In June 1865 she was returned to the lighthouse authority and sold in 1867 by this. Until about 1873 it was still under the name of Alice as a merchant ship. Then it was deleted from the register of ships.

Military activities

1861 she dragged barges, of which the observation balloon of the Union Army Balloon Corps was started under the chief pilot Thaddeus SC Lowe. In the Chesapeake Bay bothered 1862-1864 under the command of William G. Morris, the activities of the blockade runners of the Confederate and captured or sunk some of these ships.