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{{ShipCareer|fullname=U.S.S. ''New Hampshire'' (1864)|fate2=Lost 26 July, 1922{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 3}}
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|comm=11 May, 1864{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 2}}
|fatedate=19 Aug, 1921{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 3}}
|order=28 April, 1816{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 2}}
|name=New Hampshire
|launch=23 Jan, 1864{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 2}}
|builder=[[Portsmouth Navy Yard]]{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 2}}
|laid=1 Jun, 1819{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 2}}
|decomm=5 Jun, 1892{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 3}}
|fate=Sold
|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''New Hampshire''''' was one of two [[Delaware Class Ship of the Line (1820)|''Delaware'' Class ships of the line]] completed for the [[U.S. Navy]] and used as a receiving ship.

==Construction==
''New Hampshire'' may have set a record for long building time and if not, she certainly came close.  Originally named ''Alabama'', she along with five sisters she was authorized on 29 April, 1816 and was laid down three years later on 1 June, 1819 at [[Portsmouth Navy Yard]].  Construction was halted at some point after this and she remained on the stocks until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.  In the intervening decades naval technology had passed her by, and she was converted to a storeship.  Renamed ''New Hampshire'' on 23 October, 1863, she was finally launched on 23 January, 1864 and was complete by the spring of that year.{{BauerRobertsRegister|pp. 2-3}}

==Service==
Receiving ship at [[Norfolk Navy Yard]] from 1866 through 1872, then variously at Norfolk, [[Naval Station Port Royal|Port Royal]], and [[Naval Station Newport|Newport]] until 1891.  Transferred to [[Naval Station New London|New London]] in 1891.  Decommissioned on 5 June, 1892 and transferred to the New York Naval Militia the next year.  Caught fire and sank at her berth on the Hudson River on 23 May, 1921, the remains of the ''Granite State'' were intact enough to be salvaged and then sold on 19 August, 1921.  In tow to the Bay of Fundy in Canada during July 1922 she caught fire again and sank in Massachusetts Bay.{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 2}}{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 3}}

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Edmund Orville Matthews|nick=Edmund O. Matthews|appt=April, 1883|end=July, 1884{{LivingOfficers1898|p. 4}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Arthur Reid Yates|nick=Arthur R. Yates|appt=July, 1884<ref>''The Critic'' (Washington, DC) 18 July, 1884 p. 1.</ref>|end=31 October, 1887<ref>''Boston Evening Transcript'' 1 November, 1877 p. 4.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Francis John Higginson|nick=Francis J. Higginson|appt=31 October, 1887{{USOfficerReg1890|p. 8}}}}
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==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Hampshire_(1864)}}
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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