U.S.S. Pensacola (1859)
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U.S.S. Pensacola (1860) | |
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Builder: | Pensacola Navy Yard Washington Navy Yard[1] |
Ordered: | 3 March, 1857[2] |
Laid down: | March 1858[3] |
Launched: | 15 August, 1859[4] |
Commissioned: | 16 September, 1861[5] |
Decommissioned: | 6 December, 1911[6] |
Stricken: | 23 December, 1911[7] |
Sold: | 19 February, 1912[8] |
Fate: | Burnt May 1912[9] |
Contents
Construction
Her hull was designed by John Lenthall, and she was launched at the Pensacola Navy Yard on 15 August, 1859. She was commissioned briefly on 5 December, 1859 for transit to Washington Navy Yard, where her machinery had been built, and was decommissioned on 31 January, 1860 for completion.[10]
Service
Commissioned for service on 16 September, 1861.[11]
Pensacola was out of commission from 18 April, 1892 through 22 November, 1898 when she was recommissioned as a training ship in 1898. She was out of commission again from 3 May, 1899 through 14 July, 1901, then became a receiving ship at San Francisco in 1901.[12]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain William P. McCann, 16 June, 1881[13]
- Captain George Dewey, 10 March, 1885[14]
- Captain Arthur R. Yates, 6 March, 1888[15] – June, 1890[16]
- Captain Albert Kautz, 3 June, 1890[17] – 18 April, 1892[18][19]
- Captain Louis Kempff, 22 November, 1898[20][21] – 3 May, 1899[22] (also commanding Independence)
- Captain Jefferson F. Moser, 2 January, 1902[23] – 10 October, 1904[Inference]
- Captain Charles P. Perkins, 10 October, 1904[24] – 1 January, 1907[Inference] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Captain James H. Bull, 1 January, 1907[25] – 9 August, 1907[Inference] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Commander Edward E. Capehart, 9 August, 1907[26] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Commander Edward W. Eberle, 15 June, 1908[27] – after 1 January, 1910[28] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Commander Alexander S. Halstead, 3 December, 1910[29] – August 1911[30]
Armament
1871
- two 11-inch smoothbores
- eighteen 9-inch smoothbores
- two 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
1885
- twelve 9-inch smoothbores
- two 80-pounder breech-loading rifles
- two 60-pounder breech-loading rifles
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
1893
- nil
1901
- one 4-inch breech-loading rifle
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 9.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.
- ↑ Fall River Globe 3 June, 1890 p. 1.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1899. p. 139.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 16.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1909. p. 16.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1910. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 12.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
Bibliography
- Bauer, K. Jack and Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990: Major Combatants. New York: Greenwood Press.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: Civil War Navies, 1855-1883. New York: Routledge.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The New Navy 1883-1922. New York: Routledge.
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