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USS Blue Light was a steam tug built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as an ordnance tugboat in...

Blue light was famously mentioned in accounts of the H.L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine which became the first to sink an enemy vessel, the USS Housatonic...

(SS-60/SF-2) USS AA-3 (SS-61/SF-3) USS A. C. Powell (1861) USS A. Childs (1865) USS A. Collier (1864) USS A. D. Vance (1862) USS A. DeGroat (1863) USS A. G....

the USS Indianola on the Mississippi River. On April 11, 1863, she was attacked and destroyed on the Atchafalaya River by the USS Estrella, USS Calhoun...

(2020). Wikimedia Commons has media related to H. L. Hunley (submarine, 1863). USS Alligator (1862) – U. S. Navy submarine launched a year before Hunley...

Historical Center. Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Hatteras (1861). USS Hatteras (1861–1863) USS Hatteras: Site Monitoring and Mapping NOAA Press Release...

ram launched in 1863 NS Savannah, a nuclear-powered merchant ship USS Savannah (AOR-4), a US Navy Wichita-class replenishment oiler USS Savannah (CL-42)...

Mexico. There, in January 1863, Alabama had her first military engagement. She came upon and quickly sank the Union side-wheeler USS Hatteras just off the...

period of relative calm, USS Baron De Kalb (ex-St. Louis) was sunk in the Yazoo River by two Confederate torpedoes on July 13, 1863. Much of the Mississippi...

attack Union blockaders, the ship was captured by two Union monitors in 1863 when she ran aground. Atlanta was floated off, repaired, and rearmed, serving...

1863 Battle of Fort Sumter was the largest deployment of monitors in action up to that time.) The attack was unsuccessful: the Union's best ship, USS...

Information System. On December 28, 1944, 91 days after her keel was laid, the USS Blue Island Victory was launched from the Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore...

The names of commissioned ships of the United States Navy all start with USS, for United States Ship. Non-commissioned, primarily civilian-crewed vessels...

May 14, 1863. He was rated as landsman (rank), the equivalent of the current naval rating of seaman recruit. His first posting was to the USS Wyoming (1859)...

USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...

interwoven red and blue silk fibers, microprinting, and a plastic security thread (which now glows pink [nominally red] under a black light) were kept. The...

1984 joint operations with USS Pintado; and 1990 joint exercises with USS Seahorse. 6 May 1986 – USS Ray, USS Archerfish and USS Hawkbill meet and surface...

USS Marmora was a sternwheel steamer that served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War. Built in 1862 at Monongahela, Pennsylvania...

Peter (fl. 1863) (also known as Gordon, or "Whipped Peter", or "Poor Peter") was a self-emancipated, formerly enslaved man who was the subject of photographs...

USS Texas (BB-35) is a museum ship in Galveston and former United States Navy New York-class battleship. She was launched on 18 May 1912 and commissioned...