sold. Despite efforts of alumni to preserve the ship they could not come up with the funding. Two months later, she was purchased by Thomas Butler and Company, Boston, Massachusetts; and in November, she was scrapped. See also Confederate States Navy Union Navy Sources External links Log of the United States Sloop St. Mary's, 1853-1855, MS 117 and Account Book of the U.S.S. St. Mary's, 1853-1856, MS 118 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy Sloops of the United States Navy Ships built in the District of Columbia Mexican–American War ships of the United States Ships of the Union Navy American Civil War patrol vessels of the United States Training ships of the New York State Merchant Marine Academy 1844 ships