Lieutenant Joseph Couthouy |
The first
ship known as the USS Kingfisher was bought by the Union Navy August 2nd
1861. She was commissioned at the Boston
Navy Yard October 3rd 1861 and placed under the command of Acting
Lieutenant Joseph P Couthouy. She was
sent immediately to Key West, Florida to be part of the Gulf Blocking Squadron.
The
Kingfisher along with the USS Ethan Allen worked in cooperation on several
missions in early 1862, including the capture of a ship bound to Nassau,
Bahamas with a cargo of turpentine and taking the Confederate sloop the Mary
Nevis. The Kingfisher sent a landing
party in at ST Joseph, Florida to destroy the salt works located there. In December 1862 she was ordered after a
refitting in Boston, Massachusetts to be part of the South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron. The Kingfisher would run
aground March 28th 1864 at Combahee Bank in ST Helena Sound, South
Carolina. She filled with water and was
abandoned there on April 5th 1864.
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