High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Gertrude (1863) was a blockade-running steamship captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was placed in service by the Navy as a gunship and assigned to patrol the southern coast of the United States for ships attempting to run the Union blockade of Southern ports. Iron steamer Gertrude, a British blockade runner, was built in Greenock, Scotland, in 1863. She was captured 16 April 1863 by Vanderbilt off Eleuthera Island and purchased from the New York City Prize Court by the Navy 4 June 1863. Gertrude was fitted out at New York Navy Yard and commissioned there 22 July 1863, Acting Master Walter K. Cressy in command.

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