USS ''Kineo'' was a built for the

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during the

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Service during the US Civil War

The first ''Kineo'' in the service of the Navy, she was launched on 9 October 1861 at

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, by J. W. Dyer; sponsored by Miss Eunice C. Dyer, daughter of the builder, and commissioned at the

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on 8 February 1862, Lt. George M. Ransom in command. She was sent to join the forces then gathering to attack the defenses of New Orleans. On 24 April 1862, ''Kineo'' was one of the ships that battled their way past Forts Jackson and Saint Philip. Though hit by enemy cannon fire, she was able to continue up the Mississippi River and participate in the capture of the Confederacy's largest seaport. ''Kineo'' continued her operations on the lower Mississippi for more than a year. She took part in engagements at Grand Gulf on 26 May,

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in early August,

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in October and Port Hudson in December 1862. On 14 March 1863, ''Kineo'' was tied alongside USS ''Monongahela'' for a run past enemy fortifications at Port Hudson. Their efforts were thwarted when ''Monongahela's'' rudder was disabled, but the gunboat was able to pull her larger consort out of danger. In August 1863, following further actions along the river, ''Kineo'' was sent north for repairs. Returning to the

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in March 1864, ''Kineo'' spent most of that year off the Texas coast, capturing one blockade running schooner during that time. In December, she went back to the Mississippi, where she was stationed until April 1865.

After the war

USS ''Kineo'' was decommissioned in May 1865, as the Civil War was coming to an end, and was sold in October 1866. She later became the merchant schooner ''Lucy H. Gibson''.

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USS Kineo (1862-1866)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kineo Ships of the Union Navy Ships built in Portland, Maine Unadilla-class gunboats American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States 1861 ships