High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Calypso (1863) was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Calypso was used by the Navy as a gunboat, and was ordered to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Calypso joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Wilmington, North Carolina, and on 24 October 1863, took her first prize off Frying Pan Shoals, the schooner Herald. Returning to Norfolk, Virginia, in November for repairs, the steamer was back on duty off Wilmington 31 March 1864. In June she joined with Nansemond in sailing to New River Inlet to support the Union Army in an expedition to cut the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. The troops were successfully landed from Nansemond in boats from both ships on 21 June, and through the next days, Calypso's boats patrolled up the river and carried supplies to the Army. When Confederate opposition prevented the linkup of the landing party with a force moving overland, Calypso swiftly evacuated the soldiers.

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