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USS Collier (1864)

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Name
  
USS Collier

Decommissioned
  
29 July 1865

Type
  
Gunboat

Length
  
48 m

Commissioned
  
18 March 1865

Fate
  
Sold, 1865

Launched
  
1864

Acquired
  
by purchase, 7 December 1864

USS Collier was a stern wheel steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1864 as the Allen Collier and purchased by the United States Navy on 7 December of that year.

The ship was commissioned as the USS Allen Collier on 18 March 1865 and renamed to be USS Collier soon thereafter. Navy records occasionally continued to refer to the ship by her original name, Allen Collier and more frequently by a name which she never carried officially: A. Collier.

Collier patrolled the Mississippi River until the end of the American Civil War. She was decommissioned on 29 July 1865 and sold into civilian service later that year.

References

USS Collier (1864) Wikipedia