High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Penguin (1861) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Assigned originally to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Penguin joined the Potomac Flotilla on 19 August 1861. In October she shifted to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron and in November participated in the capture of Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard. Remaining with that squadron she assisted in the taking of Fernandina, Florida on 4 March 1862. On the 22nd, a boat crew from Penguin and Henry Andrew was attacked while reconnoitering Mosquito Inlet. In the ensuing engagement, Acting Lt. Budd and four others were killed.

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