This image from navsource, if your wondering.
This is the USS Nipsic, which started life as a steam-powered gunship, ended as a Barrack ship.
She was launched in New Hampshire's Portsmouth Navy Yard on 15 June 1863. Where she
Here she is in Washington Navy Yard between 1860-1870
During the Civil War, she was part of the Charleston Squadron, providing a Blockade.
After the war ship sailed South America providing protection to interested down there until she was broken 1873.
What funny is, because i guess she wooden sail boat. She got a second lease on life and was rebuilt into a larger Adams/Enterprise-class gunboat in 1887.
She would continue server, various posts from Med to Hawaii. While in Hawaii, she ended caught in a Cyclone hitting the Hawaii in 1889, where he captain successfully beached the ship saving it being sunk where merchantment the harbor were sunk. She took heavy damage to her boilers and her masts were smashed. She was refloated and rebuilt yet again, lengthen and her tonnage increased.
She remained a guard ship for Hawaii until 1890 where she was decommissioned and repurposed as a Receiving and ship an prison. Sadly she sold in 1913, and burned for her value of items 15,000. Her propeller survives her displayed at the old Mare Island Naval Yard, but with yard closed hard to say if its still there or not.
This picture was taken in Pudget Sound Naval Station in Washington State in 1898.
