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| − | '''Acacia'''—a screw, steam, schooner-rigged tug built at East Boston, | + | '''Acacia'''—a screw, steam, schooner-rigged tug built at East Boston, [[Massachusetts]]—was launched as Vicksburg sometime in September 1863; purchased at [[Boston]] by the [[United States Navy]] from C. W. Wilder on 28 October 1863; and commissioned in the Boston Navy Yard on 8 December 1863, Acting Master John D. Childs in command.<ref>Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a2-list.htm]</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:48, November 3, 2007
Acacia—a screw, steam, schooner-rigged tug built at East Boston, Massachusetts—was launched as Vicksburg sometime in September 1863; purchased at Boston by the United States Navy from C. W. Wilder on 28 October 1863; and commissioned in the Boston Navy Yard on 8 December 1863, Acting Master John D. Childs in command.[1]