High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Uncas was a 192-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Uncas was used as a gunship by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Uncas -- a screw steamer built at New York City in 1843—was purchased by the Navy there on 20 September 1861 from Dudley Buck for use with the U.S. Coast Survey. She was refitted at the New York Navy Yard from September 1861 to February 1862 and placed in service early in March, Acting Master Lemuel G. Crane commanding.

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