USS Kalmia (1863)

USS Kalmia was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.

History
United States
Ordered	as Innes
Laid down	date unknown
Launched	1863
Acquired	5 October 1863
In service	circa October 1863
Out of service	1865 (est.)
Stricken	1865 (est.)
Fate	Sold, 25 October 1865
General characteristics
Displacement	112 tons
Length	85 ft (26 m)
Beam	19 ft 6 in (5.94 m)
Draught	8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion	steam engine screw-propelled
Speed	12 knots
Complement	not known
Armament	two guns

Kalmia, a screw steamer, was built as Innes at Philadelphia in 1863 and purchased for the Navy by Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding 5 October from her owner, Arron Innes, Poughkeepsie, New York.

Renamed Kalmia 24 April 1864, the Naval Register of 1865 lists her as assigned to the North Atlantic Blockade Squadron as a fourth-rate tug. No further record of her other naval service has been found.

Kalmia was sold at public auction in New York City, New York, 25 October 1865. She was redocumented as F. B. Thurber 12 December; renamed James Hughes 8 November 1898; and destroyed by fire 15 June 1905 at Bartlett's Point, New York.