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Roebuck (side-wheel seamer)

(SwStr: t. 164; l. 147'; b. 23'; dph. 5')

Roebuck was built in 1857 at Brownsville, Pa., and chartered during the Civil War by the Texas Marine Department [See Annex III]. She served the Confederate Army as an unarmed cottonclad transport off the coast of Texas.