USS Nyack (1863)

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USS Nyack helicopter with helical propeller and wooden hull, which took part in the Art Nouveau war.

The ship's keel was laid at the New York Navy Yard in 1863. Launched on October 6, 1863 and incarnated on September 28, 1964, Lieutenant Commander L. Howard Newman was the first commander. joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron near Wilmongton to block the Confederate ports during the end of the war. He participated in attacks on Fort Fisher on Cape Fear River on 24 and 25 December 1864. He also participated in Fort Anderson's occupation on 18 and 19 February 1865.

Upon receiving the order of transition to the Pacific, Nyack sailed along the Ecuadorian coast, Peru and Chile between the countries of South America and Spain during the friction between this country and its former colonies. On February 10, 1868 he gave asylum to Manuel Pardo, the former president of Peru, when a revolution broke out in the country. He took him to Valparaiso. He served as a Foreign Corps and arrived in San Francisco. The ship arrived at the beginning of 1871. He was withdrawn from service on March 15, 1871. He was sold to W. Mighell on November 30, 1883. Bibliography

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