High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Jasmine (1861) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Jasmine, a wooden tug, was purchased at New York City under the name Peter B. Van Houten from Palmer, Crary, & John Reid, 29 May 1863; and commissioned at New York Navy Yard 17 June, Acting Master A. L. B. Zerega in command. Jasmine was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and sailed for the Gulf of Mexico 21 June. On 14 July she captured sloop Relampago with an assorted cargo, including supplies of critical copper boiler tubing, and towed her to Key West, Florida. For the remainder of the war the tireless tug served as a supply and dispatch vessel maintaining communications between the various ships of the squadron.

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