&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Capture_of_USS_Columbine2.jpg) The capture of "USS Columbine"
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Columbine |
| Launched | 1850 |
| Acquired | 12 December 1862 |
| Fate | Sunk, 23 May 1864 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | side-wheel steamer |
| Tonnage | 133 |
| Length | 117 ft (36 m) |
| Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
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| Speed | 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Complement | 25 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | 2 × 20-pounder Parrott rifles |
USS Columbine was a side-wheel steamer that patrolled with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron of the United States Navy in the American Civil War.
On 22 May 1864, Columbine was planning a raid on Confederate supplies at St. Augustine, Florida, when local cavalry commander Captain John Jackson Dickison, alerted by Confederate spy Lola Sánchez, ambushed the vessel at Horse Landing. Half her crew were wounded, though only one man was killed, and the captured vessel was burned. It was one of the few times that a Union warship was destroyed by land-based forces in Florida.