USS Alert (1861) was a steamship named A. C. Powell purchased by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. A. C. Powell — later renamed Alert, and still later renamed Watch — served primarily as a tugboat, but at times she performed duty as a dispatch boat, ship’s tender, and even as a gunboat despite the fact that she had on board only a howitzer instead of a cannon or rifle.
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