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USS Flusser (1864)

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Name
  
USS Flusser

Launched
  
date unknown

In service
  
1864

Length
  
20 m

Laid down
  
date unknown

Acquired
  
1864

Out of service
  
1865

USS Flusser (1864) was a schooner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

She was used by the Union Navy as a storeship whose duty was to supply other Union Navy ships with coal, ammunition, and other necessary provisions.

Captured Confederate schooner used as Union Navy storeship

Flusser — a 66 ft (20 m) schooner captured from the Confederates in 1864 but never libeled as a prize — was used as a coal hulk and to carry ordnance and stores to ships in the North Carolina sounds.

Flusser was sold at Washington, D.C. on 23 September 1865.

References

USS Flusser (1864) Wikipedia