View – a Confederate States of America schooner – was captured during the beginning of the American Civil War by the Union Navy.

Early in the afternoon of 28 November 1861, while cruising in Mississippi Sound, the Union screw steamer USS R. R. Cuyler, Commander, C. H. B. Caldwell, fell in with and seized A. J.

The prize's cargo was unloaded at Ship Island, Mississippi, and the schooner herself may have been used for sometime thereafter by the Gulf Blockading Squadron.

View was finally condemned by the admiralty court at New York City and was sold to the Navy on 28 July 1863 – almost two years after she had been captured.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.