USS Daisy (1850)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Daisy.
USS Daisy off Mound City, Illinois, during the American Civil War. The Mound City hospital is in the background.
History
United States
Name: USS Daisy
Namesake: The well-known flower, common in the United States and Europe.
Ordered: as Mulford
Laid down: date unknown
Launched: 1850 at Chicago, Illinois
Christened: as Mulford
Acquired: 1 October 1862
Commissioned: 24 October 1862
Decommissioned: 1865
Renamed: USS Daisy
Struck: 1865 (est.)
Fate: sold, 17 August 1865 at Mound City, Illinois
General characteristics
Type: Tugboat
Displacement: 50 long tons (51 t)
Length: 73 ft 4 in (22.35 m)
Beam: 13 ft 10 in (4.22 m)
Draft: 6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion: Steam engine, screw-propelled
Speed: 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Complement: Unknown
Armament: Unknown

USS Daisy (1850) was a tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy and to assist Union Navy ships requiring her towing services.

Assigned to the Mississippi River

Mulford — a steam tugboat — was built in 1850 at Chicago, Illinois, and acquired by the War Department for use in the Mississippi River and its tributaries early in the Civil War.

She was transferred to the Navy on 1 October 1862 and renamed Daisy on 24 October. Her former commanding officer, Master D. C. Bowers, U. S. Army, was appointed an Acting Ensign in the Navy and continued in command.

Final operations and decommissioning

Daisy served actively as a tug in the upper Mississippi River until the end of the war when she was taken to Mound City, Illinois. She was sold there on 17 August 1865.

References

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

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