U.S. Ships Named Vixen

You've probably never heard of a U.S. Navy ship named the Vixen.  I am a big Navy fan and I sure hadn't.  But right now, I am writing about Edward Simpson, a Navy officer during the Civil War who also fought in the Mexican War.  This is in my Running the Blockade: Civil War Navy blog (you can find those posts by clicking on the My Blogs section to the right of this).

During the Mexican War, he was on the USS Vixen during the fighting.  One of his commanders was Matthew C. Perry, brother of Oliver Hazard Perry and a War of 1812 veteran himself (probably better known for the opening of Japan).

From Wikipedia.

There have been several USS Vixens in the U.S. Navy.

The first two were in the War of 1812 and both captured by the British.

Simpson was on the third USS Vixen, which strangely enough, had been built in the United States for purchase by Mexico, before the Navy got the ship.

Then there was a Civil War gunboat.  The fifth Vixen was the former monitor USS Neosho, which temporarily was renamed Vixen in 1869

The next Vixen was  a tender commissioned in 1917 during World War I.

The last Vixen was a gunboat during World War II.

And, That's It for Da Vixens For Now.  You Vix Me.  --DaCootVix