High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Queen (1863) was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy as a supply ship. On 21 June 1863, Union side wheel steamer Santiago de Cuba captured blockade running British steamer Victory off Palmetto Point, Eleuthera Island after a long chase. The prize had slipped out of Wilmington, North Carolina, laden with cotton, tobacco and turpentine and was sent to Boston, Massachusetts, where she was condemned by the Boston Prize Court. Renamed Queen 1 August 1863, she was purchased by the Navy 29 September 1863, and commissioned 15 August 1863, Acting Master Robert Tarr in command.

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