Commissioned At The New York Navy Yard in 1862
Arletta — a schooner built in 1860 at Mystic, Connecticut — was purchased at New York City by the Union Navy on 7 September 1861 and commissioned in the New York Navy Yard on 30 January 1862, Acting Master Thomas E. Smith in command.
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