High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Young America (1855) was a Confederate steamer captured by the Union Navy's blockade vessels, and subsequently placed in-service in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. On 24 April 1861, Union sloop-of-war USS Cumberland (1842) captured Young America in Hampton Roads, Virginia, as that Confederate tug attempted to help blockade-running schooner George M. Smith enter the James River laden with munitions for the Confederacy. Cumberland armed the prize—a screw steamer built in 1855 at New York City -- and used her as a tender.

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