High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Periwinkle (1864) was a steamer procured by the Union Navy during the final months of the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the Confederate States of America as a patrol gunship. After the war, this ship was retained by the U.S. Navy to support the Hall Scientific Expedition to the Arctic Ocean, and during this voyage – under her new name Polaris -- she proceeded into Arctic waters, only to have her hull crushed by the ice.

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