USS Julia (1863)

Julia was an English sloop operating out of Nassau, Bahamas, captured by Union gunboat Sagamore on 8 January 1863. When taken some 10 miles north of Jupiter Inlet, Florida, she was attempting to slip through the Union blockade laden with salt badly needed by the Confederacy. She was taken to Key West, Florida, where she was condemned by a prize court and sold to the U.S. Navy. She was placed in service 15 February 1863, with Acting Master's Mate L. C. Coggeshall in charge, and used as a tender to Northern blockaders along the coast. Tahoma, Pursuit, and Eugenie were among the ships she assisted during the war. On 20 February 1863, she shared in the capture of the bark Stonewall. Julia was sold and broken up at Key West in 1865.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.