Drawing by Ron van Maanen
The photo above can be found at the url http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h74000/h74054.jpg
With the description that she was loaded with 1,000 bales of cotton at Georgetown, South Carolina, probably in 1860-1861 or 1866-1876.
Launched in 1860 Charleston, South Carolina. She was handed over by the black slave Robert Smalls to the Union forces on 13 May 1862 and used as a navy gunboat. While she was wood-fired which became quite scarce in the areas where she served was she already in August taken by the army to serve at Fort Pulaski, Georgia as a dispatch boat annex transport and the men who handed her over to the Union became her captain in 1863.
With a displacement of 308 long tons/313 tons were her dimensions 147’x 30’x 3’9” with a hold of 7’10” or 45 x 9,1 x 1,14 metres by 2,239 metre. She was armed with 1-long 32pdr gun and 1-short 24pdr howitzer.
