USS Siren

Last updated December 31, 2021

USS Siren is a name used more than once by the United States Navy:

USS Syren (1803) was a brig that the British Royal Navy captured in 1814; she was last listed in 1815
USS Siren (1862) was the steamer White Rose that the Union Navy purchased in 1864 and used as a gunboat on the Mississippi River until sold in 1865; reverting to the name White Rose, she served in river commerce until abandoned in 1867.
USS Siren (1897), a schooner commissioned on 24 June 1898. She captured the Norwegian steamer Franklin off Cuba on 2 August 1898 for blockade violation.
USS Siren (PY-13), a patrol yacht commissioned 15 November 1940.

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USS Siren (1862) was the 214-ton wooden-hulled, stern-wheel steamer White Rose launched in 1862 that the Union Navy purchased in 1864. The Navy outfitted Siren with two 24-pounder howitzers for use in bombardment and assigned her to operations on the Mississippi River where Union forces were attempting to maintain control of the river in order to split the Confederate States of America in two. The Navy sold her in 1865 and new owners returned her name to White Rose. They abandoned her in 1867.

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