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USS Laburnum (1864)
USS ''Laburnum'' (1864) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a tugboat and dispatch boat to serve Union ships on blockade duty.
''Lion'', a screw tug built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1864, was purchased by the Navy 24 June 1864, renamed ''Laburnum'', and commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 7 July 1864, Acting Master A. A. Owens in command.
== Assigned to the South Atlantic Blockade ==
The new tug joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Port Royal, South Carolina, 17 July 1864. For the remainder of the Civil War she operated in the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, on blockade duty and assisting other ships of the squadron towing and acting as dispatch vessel. Such modest but vital service by ships contributed greatly to the effectiveness of the blockade which ultimately strangled the Confederacy and restored peace to the divided nation.
On 15 February ''Laburnum'' captured a boat with seven men from blockade runner ''Sylph'' which had run aground on Sullivan’s Island while attempting to escape from Charleston and the tentacles of General W. T. Sherman’s army. Four days later, after the South had evacuated Charleston, ''Laburnum'' began removing obstructions between Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and Fort Sumter and she continued to labor restoring order to the waters of South Carolina until after the end of the war.
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