History
United States
Name	USS Renshaw
Acquired	by capture, 10 May 1862
Fate	Sold, 12 August 1865
General characteristics
Type	Schooner
Displacement	75 long tons (76 t)
Length	68 ft (21 m)
Beam	20 ft (6.1 m)
Draft	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Depth of hold	5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

The first USS Renshaw was a schooner in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

Renshaw, a new schooner still unrigged, was captured by a boatcrew from USS Louisiana in the Tar River some 5 miles above Washington, North Carolina, on 20 May 1862. The members of the expedition named the prize, taken without papers, for Louisiana's commanding officer, Comdr. Richard T. Renshaw. R. T. Renshaw, soon renamed Renshaw so that she might also honor his brother, the late Comdr. William B. Renshaw, was placed in service as an ordnance hulk and formally purchased by the Navy from the Boston Prize Court on 28 October 1862.

She served in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron through the remainder of the Civil War and was sold at Norfolk, Virginia on 12 August 1865.

See also

• Blockade runners of the American Civil War
• Blockade mail of the Confederacy
• Union Navy

References

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