High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Fernandina (1861) was a bark purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a patrol vessel, operating in Confederate waterways. Fernandina, a bark, was purchased 29 July 1861 at New York City as Florida; and renamed and commissioned 16 November 1861, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant G.W Browne in command. Fernandina reported for duty in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2 December 1861, and was ordered south to duty on the blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina. On 13 December, she scattered a Confederate encampment on the beach near Little River Inlet, North Carolina, and 12 days later she took prize William H. Northrop, running the blockade with a cargo of drugs and coffee.

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