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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Hatteras.jpg) USS Hatteras in action with CSS Alabama, off Galveston, Texas, on 11 January 1863
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Naval_jack_of_the_United_States_(1865%E2%80%931867).svg){kind=small}  United States | |
| Name | USS Hatteras |
| Namesake | An inlet on the coast of North Carolina |
| Builder | Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | date unknown |
| Acquired | 25 September 1861 |
| Commissioned | October 1861 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Out of service | 11 January 1863 |
| Stricken | 1863 (est.) |
| Fate | Sunk in action, 11 January 1863 |
| Notes | formerly known as St. Mary |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steamer |
| Displacement | 1,126 long tons (1,144 t) |
| Length | 210 ft (64 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power | 500 ihp (370 kW) |
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| Speed | 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) |
| Complement | 126 |
| Armament | 4 × 32 pdr (15 kg) guns, 1 × 20 pdr (9.1 kg) gun |
USS Hatteras (41GV68) | |
| Location | Address restricted[2] |
| Nearest city | Galveston, Texas |
| Area | less than one acre |
| NRHP reference No. | 77001567[1] |
| Added to NRHP | 28 January 1977 |
The first USS Hatteras was a 1,126-ton iron-hulled steamer purchased by the Union Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and assigned to the Union blockade of the ports and waterways of the Confederate States of America. During an engagement with the disguised Confederate commerce raider, CSS Alabama, she was taken by surprise and was sunk off the coast of Galveston, Texas. The wreck site is one of the few listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its location away from destructive surf and because of the ship's side-wheel design, which marks the transition between wooden sailing ships and steam-powered ships.[3]
Hatteras (formerly St. Mary) was purchased by the U. S. Navy from Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware on 25 September 1861. She was fitted out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and commissioned in October 1861, Commander George F. Emmons in command.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#77001567)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2 November 2013.
- ^ Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
- ^ J. Arnold Barto III. "Hatteras". Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 16 May 2010.