U.S.S. NARCISSUS (tugboat) Shipwreck
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USS Narcissus was a screw steamer launched in July 1863 as Mary Cook at East Albany, New York, United States. It was purchased by the Union Navy in New York City on September 23rd, 1863 from James D. Stevenson; and commissioned at New York Navy Yard on February 2nd, 1864, with Acting Ensign William G. Jones in command. On 19 October 2018, the shipwreck was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The new tug soon got underway south; and touched at Port Royal, South Carolina, for fuel on 14 February, before pushing on to the Gulf of Mexico. She joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron at New Orleans late in the month and was assigned to patrol and blockade duty in Mississippi Sound. On the morning of 24 August, she captured sloop Oregon in Biloxi Bay, Mississippi Sound, and took the prize to New Orleans for adjudication. Subsequently ordered to Mobile Bay, Narcissus supported clean-up operations following the great Union naval victory there on 5 August. She struck a Confederate torpedo off Mobile in a heavy storm on 7 December and sank within 15 minutes without loss of life. Raised in the closing days of 1864, Narcissus was repaired at Pensacola early in 1865 and served in the gulf as a dispatch boat through the end of the war. She departed Pensacola on New Year's Day 1866, and ran aground during a gale northwest of Egmont Key, Florida on 4 January. When attempting to get off the bar the boiler exploded, destroying the ship with loss of all on board. == Consideration as Florida's twelfth Underwater Archaeological Preserve == In December 2011, The Bureau of Archaeological Research, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State, initiated a proposal to dedicate the wreck site of the Narcissus as Florida's twelfth Underwater Archaeological Preserve. The proposal was accepted and the shipwreck became an Underwater Archaeological Preserve in January 2015. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here. Photos from Narcissus prop shaft leading to the prop assembly, prop, engine, hull: Barnette, Michael C. (2008). "May 31, 2008: USS Narcissus (15 feet)". Association of Underwater Explorers. Archived from the original on 6 June 2008. Retrieved 6 September 2008.
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U.S.S. NARCISSUS (tugboat) Shipwreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 2018.
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U.S.S. NARCISSUS (tugboat) Shipwreck is classified as a structure in the National Register of Historic Places.
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