Curlew (Packet/Gunboat, 1862-1865)

Photographer

Lytle, Andrew

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Packet/Gunboat
• BUILT: 1861 at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania
• FORMERLY: Florence
• OWNERS: U.S. Navy (1862); James Polakin (1865)
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1393; Originally the Florence. Taken over by the U.S. and renamed Curlew on December 17, 1862. She became a Civil War gunboat, tinclad #12. She was sold at Mound City, Illinois on August 17, 1865 to James Polakin
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: Near Baton Rouge, Louisiana