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<div name=fredbot:career>{{ShipCareer|fullname=U.S.S. ''Pensacola'' (1860)|hullno=
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|name=Pensacola
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|order=3 March, 1857{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}
|builder=[[Pensacola Navy Yard]]<br>[[Washington Navy Yard]]{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}
|laid=March 1858{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}
|launch=15 August, 1859{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}
|comm=16 September, 1861{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}
|decomm=6 December, 1911{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}
|strick=23 December, 1911{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}
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|fate2=Burnt May 1912{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}
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|fg=gold|bg=navy}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. Pensacola''' was a [[Sloop|screw sloop]] completed for the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] in 1861.

==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.{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}

==Service==
Commissioned for service on 16 September, 1861.{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}

''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.{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Pensacola''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=William Penn McCann|nick=William P. McCann|appt=16 June, 1881{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 9}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=George Dewey|nick=George Dewey|appt=10 March, 1885{{USOfficerReg1887|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Arthur Reid Yates|nick=Arthur R. Yates|appt=6 March, 1888{{USOfficerReg1890|p. 6}}|end=June, 1890<ref>''Fall River Globe'' 3 June, 1890 p. 1.</ref>}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Albert Kautz|nick=Albert Kautz|appt=3 June, 1890{{USOfficerReg1892|p. 6}}|end=18 April, 1892{{USOfficerReg1892|p. 6}}{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Louis Kempff|nick=Louis Kempff|appt=22 November, 1898{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}{{USOfficerReg1899|p. 139}}|end=3 May, 1899{{SilverstoneNewNavy|p. 2}}|note=also commanding {{US-Independence}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Jefferson Franklin Moser|nick=Jefferson F. Moser|appt=2 January, 1902{{USOfficerReg1904|p. 10}}|end=10 October, 1904{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Charles Plummer Perkins|nick=Charles P. Perkins|appt=10 October, 1904{{USOfficerReg1906|p. 10}}|note=also [[Naval Training Station San Francisco|Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco]]|end=1 January, 1907{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=James Henry Bull|nick=James H. Bull|appt=1 January, 1907{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 10}}|note=also [[Naval Training Station San Francisco|Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco]]|end=9 August, 1907{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Edward Everett Capehart|nick=Edward E. Capehart|appt=9 August, 1907{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 16}}|note=also [[Naval Training Station San Francisco|Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Edward Walter Eberle|nick=Edward W. Eberle|appt=15 June, 1908{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 16}}|end=after 1 January, 1910{{USOfficerReg1910|p. 14}}|note=also [[Naval Training Station San Francisco|Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco]]}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Alexander Seaman Halstead|nick=Alexander S. Halstead|appt=3 December, 1910{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 12}}|end=August 1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 12}}}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>

==Armament==
{{BauerRobertsRegister|p. 63}}
===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==
{{refbegin}}
{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pensacola_(1859)}}
{{refend}}

==Footnotes==
{{reflist}}

==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
* {{BauerRobertsRegister}}
* {{SilverstoneCivilWar}}
* {{SilverstoneNewNavy}}
{{refend}}

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