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USS Adelaide (1854)
USS ''Adelaide'' (1854) was a steamer chartered by the Union Navy during the beginning of the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a transport in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
==Pre-Civil War commercial maritime service==
Sidewheel steamer ''Adelaide'' was built in 1854 at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York, by the firm of Lupton and McDermott for Cornelius Vanderbilt who intended to send her round Cape Horn for service in the rivers and shallow coastal waters of California during the Gold Rush.
However, changing business conditions caused this plan to be cancelled; and the ship was sold while she was still under construction to the Calais, Maine, Steamboat Company for which she operated as a passenger packet between Boston, Massachusetts, and New Brunswick, Canada.
The Baltimore Steam Packet Company purchased the vessel early in February 1859 to replace its steamer ''North Carolina'' which had caught fire at sea while ''en route'' to Norfolk, Virginia on 29 January of that year, and had sunk early the following morning. ''Adelaide'' arrived at Norfolk late in February and took up duty carrying passengers between that city and Baltimore, Maryland.
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