Transferred to Treasury Department, 6 September 1865
United States
Name
USRC Wilderness
Acquired
6 September 1865
Commissioned
November 1865
Decommissioned
April 1891
Renamed
USRC John A. Dix, 11 June 1873
Fate
Sold, 18 May 1891
General characteristics
Type
Side-wheel steamer
Displacement
390 tons
Length
137 ft (42 m)
Beam
25 ft (7.6 m)
Draft
6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion
Steam engine
Speed
13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Armament
4 × 24-pounder guns
USS Wilderness was a wooden-hulled, side-wheel steamship in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. After the war, she served as a revenue cutter. In 1873, she was renamed John A. Dix for former Secretary of the Treasury John Adams Dix.
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Cuyler – Cmdr. Charles Henry Bromedge Caldwell USS Tristram Shandy – Lt. Edward F. Devens USSWilderness District of Cape Fear – MG. William H.C. Whiting...
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(B&W) of the same title in 1941 and again as a color film, Lure of the Wilderness, in 1952. Bell continued writing while serving in the Navy in World War...
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