U.S.S. Tallapoosa (1863)
| U.S.S. Tallapoosa (1863) | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Boston NYd[1] |
| Laid down: | late 1862[2] |
| Launched: | 17 Feb, 1863[3] |
| Commissioned: | 13 Sep, 1864[4] |
| Sold: | 23 Feb, 1892[5] |
U.S.S. Tallapoosa was the sole side-wheel gunboat of the Sassacus class to survive into the 1880s.
Construction
Built at Boston Navy Yard, Tallapoosa's machinery was ordered from the Neptune Works of New York City.[6]
Service
Assigned to the South Atlantic Station, Tallapoosa departed New York for Rio de Janeiro on 7 June, 1886. She remained in South American waters for the next six years serving as a dispatch vessel for the station until 1892. By that time she had, in the words of James Rentfrow, "literally rotted... to the point it was no longer safe to operate her." While en route to the Pacific, Rear Admiral John G. Walker ordered her supplies and whatever fittings were still usuable salvaged.[7]
Tallapoosa's hulk was sold at either Montevideo or Buenos Aires on 3 March, 1892.[8][9][10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Lieutenant David G. McRitchie, 1869[11] – 1873[12]
- Commander Augustus G. Kellogg, 3 March, 1881[13] – 1883[14]
- Commander Francis W. Dickins, 18 July, 1887[15] – 2 October, 1889[16]
- Commander James M. Forsyth, 2 October, 1889[17] – Early 1892
Armament
As Completed
- two 100-pounder Parrott muzzle-loading rifles
- four 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbores
- two 20-pounder Parrott muzzle-loading rifles
1887
- one 8-inch muzzle-loading rifle
- five 60-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 131.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 81.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 81.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 81.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 81.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 81.
- ↑ Rentfrow. Home Squadron. p. 90.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
- ↑ Rentfrow. Home Squadron. p. 90.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 81, lists 23 February as her date of sale.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (3th ed). p. 223.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (3th ed). p. 223.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 11.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (5th ed). p. 148.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 10.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 80.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 80.
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.
- Rentfrow, James C. (2014). Home Squadron: The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station. Annapolis: Naval Institute 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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