Nymph (Tinclad Gunboat)
1864-1865
In Greek mythology, a type of minor divinities represented as beautiful maidens dwelling in mountains, forests, meadows, or springs.
(Tinclad Gunboat: tonnage 171; length 161'2"; beam 30'4"; depth of hold 4'2"; draft 5'0"; speed 4 miles per hour; armament 8 24-pounder smoothbores)
Cricket No. 3, a stern-wheel wooden river steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863, was purchased by the Navy at Cincinnati on 8 March 1864, fitted out as a "tinclad" gunboat, and commissioned at Mound City, Illinois, as Nymph on 11 April 1864, Acting Master Patrick Donnelly in command.
Nymph patrolled the Mississippi and its tributaries through the end of the Civil War, helping to maintain Union lines of supply and communication. She decommissioned some two and a half miles above Cairo, Illinois on 28 June 1865 and was sold at public auction at Mound City on 17 August 1865 to M. A. Hutchinson.
Updated. Robert J. Cressman
12 May 2022
