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USS Hibiscus (1864)
USS ''Hibiscus'' (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy towards the end of the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
==Purchased at New York City in 1864==
''Hibiscus'' was purchased at New York City from S. M. Pook on 16 November 1864; and commissioned there on 29 December 1864, Lt. William L. Martine in command.
The ship and her sister USS Spirea are described during trials in November 1864:
"The new twin-screw steamer ''Hybiscus'' () made her official trial trip in New York harbor on the 3d. This vessel and a sister ship were constructed for the purpose of demonstrating the plans of a light draught gunboat which should be able to carry a heavy battery, and at the same time to place the machinery so far below the water line as to preclude injury to it by the enemy’s shot. These vessels were planned and constructed by Mr. Samuel H. Pook, of Fair Haven, Conn. The engines selected for these vessels are known as Wright’s segmental engine. The ''Hybiscus'', with about 25 pounds pressure of steam, made eleven knots, the engines working finely. The vessel was turned around in a very small space, and in four minutes and eighteen seconds of time. Her mean draught of water is 6 feet 7 inches, she drawing 6 feet 10 inches aft and 4 feet 4 inches forward, and this with her bunkers stowed full of coal." 〔United States Army and Navy Journal, Volume 2, p.189. November 14, 1864. http://books.google.com/books?jtp=186&id=3x4_AQAAMAAJ&output=text〕
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