High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Philippi (1863) was a blockade runner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She served the Union Navy's struggle against the Confederate States of America as a picket, patrol and dispatch vessel. Union steamer Howquah discovered new and fast sidewheeler Ella 10 November 1863 steaming along the coast north of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. She immediately gave chase and fired a shot at the blockade runner which glanced off Ella's gallows frame and caused her to surrender. The Boston, Massachusetts, Prize Court subsequently condemned the prize and sold her to the Navy 23 February 1864. Renamed Philippi four days later, the steamer commissioned early in April.

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