STEAMER NYANZA OF CIVIL WAR,1866 MONTGOMERY ALA,PAY RECEIPT TO STR PRAIRIE STATE

Description

Shipping 4 Boxes    August 9, 1866
2 cent Bank Check revenue stamp, initialed
in
manuscript BWB Aug 14/66  by B W Bell,
clerk
on Steamer Prairie State.
8 1/2" x 4 3/4"
one vertical fold, two vertical bends.
add .50 for 1st class/Insured to U.S....
USS
Nyanza
(1863)
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History
(US)
Laid down:
date unknown
Launched:
1863
Acquired:
4 November 1863
Commissioned:
21 December 1863
Decommissioned:
21 July 1865
Stricken:
1865 (est.)
Fate:
sold, 12 August 1865
General characteristics
Displacement:
203 tons
Length:
not known
Beam:
not known
Draught:
not known
Propulsion:
steam engine
side wheel-propelled
Speed:
not known
Complement:
not known
Armament:
six 24-pounder
howitzers
USS
Nyanza
(1863)
was a large
steamer
purchased by the
Union Navy
during the
American Civil War
. She was assigned by the Union Navy to
gunboat
duty in the waterways of the rebellious
Confederate States of America
.
s
Construction
Nyanza
, a wooden side wheel steamer built at
Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania
, in 1863, was purchased by the Navy at
Cincinnati, Ohio
, 4 November 1863; and commissioned at
Mound City, Illinois
, Acting Lt. Samuel B. Washburn in command 21 December 1863.
Mississippi river
During the Civil War,
Nyanza
patrolled the
Mississippi River
and its tributaries protecting Union lines of communication and supply on the great inland waterway and preventing Confederate activity.
She captured
schooner
J. W. Wilder
in the
Atchafalaya River
,
Louisiana
, 15 March 1864; and took schooner
Mandoline
, in Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana, 13 April.
Post-war
After hostilities ceased,
Nyanza
decommissioned at
New Orleans, Louisiana
on 21 July 1865 and was sold at
public auction
to Owen Finnegan 12 August 1865.
Redocumented 26 August 1865, the side wheeler remained in merchant service until 1873.