U.S.S. Minnesota (1855)
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U.S.S. Minnesota (1855) | |
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Builder: | Washington Navy Yard[1] |
Ordered: | 6 April, 1854[2] |
Laid down: | May 1854[3] |
Launched: | 1 December, 1855[4] |
Commissioned: | 21 May, 1857[5] |
Stricken: | 12 July, 1901[6] |
Sold: | 12 August, 1901[7] |
Fate: | Burnt for salvage |
Contents
Construction
Service
Minnesota was loaned to the Massachusetts Naval Militia in October 1895 continuing that duty until 12 August, 1901. On that day she was sold to Thomas Butler & Company of Boston. She was eventually was burned to salvage her iron fittings at Eastport, Maine.
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Commodore James Alden, Jr., 1868
- Captain Stephen B. Luce, 1 January, 1878[8]
- Commander Henry L. Howison, 1881[9] – before 22 February, 1882
- Captain James H. Gillis, 22 February, 1882[10]
- Captain Theodore F. Kane, 15 June, 1886[11]
- Captain Gilbert C. Wiltse, 14 April, 1888[12]
- Captain Edward E. Potter, 1 April, 1891[13]
- Captain Henry F. Picking, 21 November, 1894[14]
In April, 1887, she may have been under the command of Captain Henry Wilson.[15]
Armament
1873
- two 11-inch smoothbores
- two 100-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
- forty-two 9-inch smoothbores
1875
- one 11-inch smoothbore
- twenty-six 9-inch smoothbores
- four 32-pounder smoothbores
1878
- one 11-inch smoothbore
- thirty-eight 9-inch muzzle-loading rifles
- four 32-pounder smoothbores
- two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
1879
- twenty-four 9-inch smoothbores
- sixteen 32-pounder smoothbores
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
1882
- twenty-four 9-inch smoothbores
- one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
1887
- eight 9-inch smoothbores
- one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
1890
- eight 9-inch smoothbores
- one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1880. p. 9.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. pp. 16-17.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 9.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1891. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1895. p. 6.
- ↑ Email from Venisa J. Fields with signed "Shipping Articles for the Naval Service", 20221103.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
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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