Commissioned in Boston in 1865
Trefoil -- a wooden-hulled screw steamer built in 1864 by clipper ship designer Donald McKay -- was purchased by the Union Navy on 4 February 1865 and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, on 1 March 1865, Acting Master Charles C. Wells in command.
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