A bit of a long shot this one but does anyone have access to any Boston newspaper archives that might have reported on a public auction of ships on October 3, 1866. I'm trying to find out about the latter stages of the USS Port Royal which was a civil war gunboat.
All records stop with the info that she was sold at Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 1866. Would like to find out who she was sold to so's I can find out about what happened to her after. She would most likely have been renamed rather than scrapped as she was only built in 1862.
On the same day 2 other ships were sold which might help with cross-referencing in case the Port Royal is not named herself:
USS FEARNOT - renamed Nevada
Sold at public auction, October 3, 1866, at Boston, Mass., to William F. Weld & Co., for $19,500, by Horatio Harris & Co.
LT.SS PONTOOSUC
Sold, October 3, 1866, at Boston, Mass., for $6,800.
Description of the Port Royal:
Launched: January 17, 1862 at New York
Commissioned: April 26, 1862 at the New York Navy Yard
Decommissioned: May 23, 1866
Struck: 1866 (est.)
Fate: sold at Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 1866
Type: Sassacus double ended steamboat
Displacement: 805 tons
Length: 209’
Beam: 35’
Draft: 9’
Depth of hold: 11’ 6”
Propulsion: steam engine, side-wheel propelled
Speed: 9 knots
Thanks for looking and/or helping.