A double-right-angled marine engine with two side paddles
Speed
13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement
95 officers and men
Armament
1 × 4" gun
1 × 9" gun
2 × 8" guns
2 × 24 lb brass howitzers (1862)
Harriet Lane was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and, on the outbreak of the American Civil War, a ship of the United States Navy and later Confederate States Navy. The craft was named after the niece of senator and later United States President, James Buchanan; during his presidency, she acted as First Lady. The cutter was christened and entered the water for the Revenue Service in 1859 out of New York City, and saw action during the Civil War at Fort Sumter, New Orleans, Galveston, Texas, and Virginia Point. The Confederates captured her in 1863, whereupon she was converted to mercantile service. Union forces recaptured her at the end of war. The U.S. Navy declared her unfit for service and sold her. New owners out of Philadelphia renamed her Elliot Ritchie. Her crew abandoned her at sea in 1881.
commanded on the deck of the HarrietLane at the Nashville. On 5 June 1861 HarrietLane, commanded by Captain John A. Faunce, USRCS; engaged Confederate forces...
Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903) acted as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor...
USCGC HarrietLane refers to three ships of the United States Coast Guard: USRCHarrietLane (1857), a revenue cutter serving in the United States Revenue...
the Battle of Fort Sumter, by the US Revenue Cutter Service cutter USRCHarrietLane. The final shots were fired on June 22, 1865, by the Confederate raider...
shallow-water amphibious assaults.[citation needed] On 11 April 1861, the USRCHarrietLane fired the first shots of the maritime conflict in the American Civil...
and capture the United States Revenue Cutter Service revenue cutter USRCHarrietLane. Though the enterprise was a success, Neptune was badly damaged and...
Lea of the Union Navy, was mortally wounded while serving on the USRCHarrietLane. Lea himself was among the Confederate officers who boarded the captured...
the Revenue-Marine until about 1890. During the American Civil War, USRCHarrietLane fired the first naval shots of the war, engaging the steamer Nashville...
In Trimming Yankee Sails: Pirates and Privateers of New Brunswick. Goose Lane Editions and The New Brunswick Military Heritage Project. 2005. pp. 63–86...
Blockading Squadron. On 4 October 1862, Westfield led a unit composed of HarrietLane, Owasco, Clifton, and Henry Janes in a successful assault on the city...
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