USS J. W. Wilder (1859) [SEP] conflict
USS J. W. Wilder (1859)
USS "J. W. Wilder" (1859) was a schooner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a tender in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
British schooner captured, placed into Union Navy service.
"J. W. Wilder" was a British schooner captured about 15 miles east of Mobile Bay entrance 20 January 1862 by Union screw steamer . She was condemned and sold to the Navy by the
the Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Company. When Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in 1927 to form Vickers-Armstrongs, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was bought out by J. D. Siddeley and became a separate entity.
History Armaments.
The Elswick Ordnance Company (sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as "EOC") was originally created in 1859 to separate William Armstrong's armaments business from his other business interests, to avoid a conflict of interest as Armstrong was then Engineer of Rifled Ordnance for the War Office and