USS Niphon was a steam operated vessel acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Niphon, a wooden and iron screw steamer launched at Boston, Massachusetts, in February 1863, delivered to the Navy at Boston on 22 April 1863; and commissioned at Boston Navy Yard on 24 April 1863, Acting Ensign Joseph B. Breck in command; and was formally purchased 9 May 1863.
USSNiphon was a steam operated vessel acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways...
(Saint Niphon), Ecumenical Patriarch in 1486–1488, 1497–1498 and 1502 USSNiphon (1863), a steam ship of Union Navy in the American Civil War Niphon spinosus...
stationed off Smith's Island. On the 18th, she assisted USSNiphon in destroying steamer, Hebe, which Niphon had chased aground while that blockade runner was...
Fisher and from "friendly guns" on two other Union ships, USS Governor Buckingham and USSNiphon. In this operation one of her bluejackets was killed and...
just abreast of Fort Fisher. On 21 October 1863, she assisted USS Nansemond and USSNiphon in destroying blockade runner Venus. Christmas Eve that year...
on February 27, 1863. From April 24, 1863 he commanded the screw steamer Niphon, taking a prominent part in the destruction of the saltworks at Masonboro...
Caledonian Mercury. No. 23464. Edinburgh. 14 August 1864. Gaines, p. 37. "USS Alice C. Price (+1864)". Wrecksite. Retrieved 28 May 2020. "Ship News". The...
both Berberry and Niphon and enabling Confederate shore batteries to open fire on both Union ships. Despite the heavy barrage, Niphon pressed on with her...
crew were saved. On the night of 7 March 1864, men from Mount Vernon and Niphon boarded the wreck at low tide and destroyed as much as they could, cutting...
taking Confederate steamer Kate. On 8 November, with the assistance of Niphon she captured Cornubia, an iron side wheeler bringing in a valuable cargo...
steamer USS Monticello ( United States Navy), which had mistaken her for a blockade runner. Men from the screw steamers USS Mount Vernon and USSNiphon (both...
fire by the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Nansemond and the armed screw steamers USSNiphon and USS Iron Age (all United States Navy). U.S. Navy...
Union blockade: Pursued by the armed screw steamer USSNiphon and the armed sidewheel paddle steamer USS Shokokon (both United States Navy), the screw steamer...
steamer USSNiphon captured her on 7 February, lightened her, and attempted to tow her off, but burned her after she grounded again. The gunboat USS Cambridge...
Kingdom American Civil War, Union blockade: Pursued by the screw steamer USSNiphon ( United States Navy), the 285-, 300-, or 446-ton sidewheel paddle steamer...
California Press, 1981, ISBN 0-520-04382-0, p. 6. trampsofsanfrancisco.com USS Comanche: Ironclad of San Francisco "Shipping Intelligence". Liverpool Mercury...
she spotted a strange vessel bearing south by west, heading over the bar. Niphon, on station nearby, also saw the ship and came about. Wilderness, steaming...
8 November 1863, however luck ran out for Cornubia. She was pursued by Niphon and was forced to run up onto the beach at New Inlet. The ship's captain...
Chloe V.; Harvey, James J.; Miller, Anne; Johnson, Vivienne; Phongsuwan, Niphon (2013). "The Green Fins approach for monitoring and promoting environmentally...
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