U.S.S. Powhatan (1850)

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U.S.S. Powhatan (1850)
Builder: Norfolk Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: 3 March, 1847[2]
Laid down: 14 July, 1847[3]
Launched: 14 February, 1850[4]
Commissioned: 2 September, 1852[5]
Decommissioned: 2 June, 1886[6]
Sold: 30 July, 1887[7]
Fate: Broken up
U.S.S. Powhatan was a side-wheel frigate completed for the U.S. Navy in 1852, remaining on the Navy List into the early years of the "New Navy".

Construction

Her hull was designed by Francis Grice and her engines by Charles H. Haswell.[8] Her engines were contracted to A. Mehaffey & Co., Portsmouth, Virginia.[9]

Service

Powhatan was part of Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron during his negotiatons with Japan in 1854.[10]

Powhatan was decommissioned on 2 June, 1886, and was sold to Burdette Pond of Meriden, Connecticut for breaking up on 30 July, 1887. She was scrapped on 5 August, 1887.[11][12]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

1869

[17]

  • one 11-inch muzzle-loading rifle
  • two 100-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
  • fourteen 9-inch smoothbores

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  2. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  3. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  4. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  5. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
  7. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  8. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  9. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  10. ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 14.
  11. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.
  12. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
  13. ↑ Records of Living Officers (6th ed). p. 4.
  14. ↑ Records of Living Officers (6th ed). p. 4.
  15. ↑ Records of Living Officers (6th ed). p. 34.
  16. ↑ Records of Living Officers (6th ed). p. 34.
  17. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 54.

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.


Side-wheel Frigate U.S.S. Powhatan
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