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USS
Shamrock
(SwStr: t. 974; l. 205'; b. 35'; dph. 12'; dr. 8'10";
s.
13 k.; cpl. 160; a. 2 100-pdr. P.r., 4 9" D. sb., 2 20-pdr. P.r.,
2 24-pdr. how., 1 heavy 12-pdr. sb.)
Shamrock-a double-ended side wheel gunboat
built at the
The next day, Shamrock was ordered to proceed directly to the
sounds of
On the 20th, Shamrock reached Hatteras Inlet where orders
awaited her to enter
Late in October, she served as the mother ship of the steam launch
which Lt. William Barker Gushing had brought to the sounds from
Albermarle and the launch quickly sank and, for
the first time since spring, Union naval forces enjoyed undisputed control
of the
Through the ensuing winter, Comdr. Macomb, in Shamrock, directed
operations in the sounds, assuring the Union control of these strategic
waters as General Grant relentlessly tightened his grip on Richmond, and General
Sherman pushed his army northward from Georgia through the Carolinas. On 20
March 1865, Macomb reported the raising of Albemarle.
Shamrock remained in the sounds directing
affairs afloat in the area for several months after the Confederate
collapse. In mid-summer, she returned north and was decommissioned at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 August.
Recommissioned
on 17 October 1865, Shamrock next served
in the Caribbean and was one of the nine ships comprising the West Indies Squadron which was reestablished on 2 December. The following year, the
double ender crossed the Atlantic for
service in European waters. She returned to the United States in July 1868 and was decommissioned at the Philadelphia
NavyYard on 10 August. Shamrock was
sold on 1 September 1868 to Mr. E.
Stannard of
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Shamrock-a side wheel steamer purchased by the Navy on 16
July 1864—was renamed Isonomia (q.v.) shortly thereafter.
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