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USS Tristram Shandy (1864)
USS ''Tristram Shandy'' (1864) was a 444-ton steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.
With her Parrott rifle installed, she was used by the Navy as a gunboat to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederate States of America to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
==Confederate Navy ==
''Tristram Shandy'' took her name from the hero—and the shortened title—of the novel, ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'', which was written by Laurence Sterne between the years 1759 and 1767. She was a schooner-rigged, iron-hulled sidewheel steamer completed in 1864 at Greenock, Scotland. She was originally owned by Matthew Isaac Wilson, a Liverpool, England, merchant. The ship subsequently sailed for the Bahamas, whence she took part in British efforts to continue trade with Southern states during the American Civil War.
On her first attempt to run the Federal blockade, ''Tristram Shandy'' outdistanced a Union pursuer by dumping cargo overboard to gain a few more knots of speed. After reaching Wilmington, North Carolina, she returned to Nassau, Bahamas, to pick up another cargo earmarked for the Confederate States of America.
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