abstract
| - USS Lodona (1862) was a large steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries. Lodona, a bark-rigged iron screw steamer, was built at Kingston-upon-Hull, England, in 1862 and owned by Z. C. Pearson, London. Captured by Union gunboat USS Unadilla while attempting to run the blockade in Ossawbaw Sound, South Carolina, 4 August 1862, the ship was taken to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, under Lt. C. H. Greene for adjudication; condemned; and purchased by the Navy from the Philadelphia Prize Court 20 September 1862. Lodona commissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 5 January 1863 with Acting Lieutenant Edmund R. Colhoun in command.
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