USS Fahkee
The merchant steamship Fah-Kee, which served as USS Fahkee during the Civil War | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Fah Kee or Fah-Kee |
| Owner |
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| Port of registry | New York |
| Builder | Edward F Williams, Greenport NY |
| Launched | 24 November 1862 |
| Completed | February 1863 |
| Fate | Sold |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Fahkee |
| Acquired | 15 July 1863 |
| Commissioned | 24 September 1863 |
| Decommissioned | 28 June 1865 |
| Stricken | 1865 (est.) |
| Homeport | Port Royal, South Carolina |
| Fate | Sold, 10 August 1865 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Pictou |
| Namesake | Pictou |
| Owner | Quebec and Gulf Ports Steamship Co |
| Port of registry | Quebec |
| Fate | Missing 1873, probably burnt |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger-cargo and naval collier |
| Tonnage | 745 GRT; from c1866 601GRT; from 1872 757GRT |
| Displacement | 660 long tons (670 t) |
| Length | 163 ft (50 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft 6 in (8.99 m) |
| Draft | 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) |
| Installed power | 300hp (later 100nhp) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement | (naval) 73 |
| Armament |
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The passenger-cargo steamer Fah-Kee (or Fah Kee) was launched in 1862 at Greenpoint, Brooklyn and operated on the United States coast until purchased in July 1863 by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. The Navy used USS Fahkee as a collier and freight supply ship assigned to assist Union Navy ships patrolling Confederate waterways.
At the end of the war she returned to mercantile service, as a mail ship to Cuba and Bermuda. In 1872 she was sold to Canadian owners, and renamed Pictou for service between that port and Quebec. In November 1873 she went missing and was believed lost by fire.