Coeur de Lion as a barge with a balloon on a leash
The USS Coeur de Lion ( Eng. "Lionheart"; correct French actually Cœur de lion , but it is unclear which spelling was actually used at the time) was a ship of the United States Navy .
history
It was built in 1853 in Coxsackie on the Hudson River as a civilian steamboat with a load capacity of 100 tons and side-wheel drive . It was later used by the Lighthouse Board as a lighthouse supplier. With the outbreak of the American Civil War , she was loaned to the Navy and equipped with a rifled 30-pounder (caliber 10.7 cm) and one rifled and one smooth- barreled 12-pounder as a gunboat. In June 1865 it was returned to the lighthouse authorities and sold by them in 1867. Until about 1873 she served as a merchant ship under the name Alice . Then she was removed from the register of ships.