USS Phlox

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History
United States
Ordered	as F. W. Lincoln
Laid down	date unknown
Launched	1864
Acquired	2 August 1864
Commissioned	14 September 1864
Decommissioned	28 July 1865
In service	1865
Out of service	1873
Stricken	1873 (est.)
Homeport	Annapolis, Maryland
Fate	Transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1865
General characteristics
Displacement	317 tons
Length	145 ft (44 m)
Beam	24 ft (7.3 m)
Draught	depth of hold 9 ft (2.7 m) draft 6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion	steam engine side wheel-propelled
Speed	12 knots
Complement	32
Armament	not known

USS Phlox was a steamer commissioned by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the Confederate States of America as a gunboat; and, after the war's end, she served the midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as a training ship.