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Crescent

 

(SwStr: t. 171)

 

Crescent was built in 1858 at Mobile, Ala., and served the Confederate army there as a workboat, tow boat, and flag-of-truce boat. Often she unloaded cargo from arriving blockade runners so that they could get over the bar into port.