USS Cohasset (1860)
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 Sketch of USS Cohasset. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Cohasset |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | 1860 |
| Acquired | 13 September 1861 |
| In service | 26 October 1861 |
| Out of service | 1882 |
| Stricken | 1892 (est.) |
| Home port | Boston Navy Yard |
| Fate | Sold, 9 May 1892 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Tugboat |
| Displacement | 100 long tons (100 t) |
| Length | 82 ft (25 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft 10 in (5.74 m) |
| Draft | 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) |
| Complement | 12 |
| Armament | 1 × 20-pounder rifled gun |
USS Cohasset was a tugboat acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy for various purposes: as a tugboat, dispatch vessel, escort vessel, and even as a gunboat.
Cohasset — a tug originally called E. D. Fogg and later Narragansett — was built in 1860 at Providence, Rhode Island; purchased by the Navy on 13 September 1861; outfitted at New York Navy Yard; delivered at Hampton Roads, Virginia on 26 October 1861; and assigned to duty with the Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
From 26 October 1861-July 1864, Cohasset sailed in the Norfolk, Virginia, area and in the rivers of Virginia as a picket and dispatch boat, carried mail and supplies, towed coal barges, acted as guard for Minnesota, and shared in the fighting in the York, James, and Nansemond Rivers.
