Name USS Eutaw Decommissioned 8 May 1865 Type Steam gunboat Length 62 m | Commissioned 2 July 1863 Fate Sold, 15 October 1867 Launched February 1863 | |
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Builder J. J. Abrahams, Baltimore, Maryland | ||
USS Eutaw – a 1,173 long tons (1,192 t) Sassacus-class "double-ender" steam gunboat built at Baltimore, Maryland by J. J. Abrahams – was commissioned on 2 July 1863, Lieutenant Commander Homer C. Blake in command.
Service history
Assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, she spent most of the American Civil War operating on the Potomac and James Rivers and along the Atlantic coast. On 4–5 May 1864, Eutaw covered the Army as it landed below City Point, Virginia, and, on 14 July and 17 July, she bombarded the Confederates at Malvern Hill. Later on 5 July, along with Augusta, she towed the ill-fated monitor Tecumseh from Hampton Roads to the Gulf of Mexico, returning to the James River on 22 August.
In April 1865, with the war nearly at an end, Eutaw went to New York City on 26 April, where she was decommissioned on 8 May. She was sold on October 15, 1867.