National Register of Historic Places

USS HATTERAS (41GV68)

Galveston, Galveston County, Texas
Listed
January 28, 1977
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
77001567

About this property

The first USS Hatteras was a 1,126-ton iron-hulled steamer purchased by the Union Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America. During an engagement with the disguised Confederate commerce raider, CSS Alabama, she was taken by surprise and was sunk off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The wreck site is one of the few listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its location away from destructive surf and because of the ship's side-wheel design, which marks the transition between wooden sailing ships and steam-powered ships. Hatteras (formerly St. Mary) was purchased by the U. S. Navy from Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware on 25 September 1861. She was fitted out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned in October 1861, Commander George F. Emmons in command.

Location

Galveston, Galveston County, Texas

Categories

MILITARYMARITIME HISTORY
Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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USS HATTERAS (41GV68) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1977.

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USS HATTERAS (41GV68) is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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