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Revision as of 13:21, 16 September 2015

U.S.S. Wabash (1855)
Builder: Philadelphia Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: 6 April, 1854[2]
Laid down: 16 May, 1854[3]
Launched: 24 October, 1855[4]
Commissioned: 18 August, 1856[5]
Decommissioned: 15 November, 1912[6]
Stricken: 15 November, 1912[7]
Sold: 30 December, 1912[8]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Wabash was a screw frigate which was converted into a receiving ship in 1875.

Construction

Machinery contracted to Merrick & Sons.[9]

Service

Decommissioned on 25 April, 1874 and housed over at Boston Navy Yard as a receiving ship the next year. For a time she retained some of her guns, but by 1897 they had all been removed.[10][11]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

1871

[23]

  • one 11-inch smoothbore
  • two 100-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
  • forty-two 9-inch smoothbores

1887

[24]

  • eighteen 9-inch smoothbores
  • two 20-pounder breach-loading rifles

1893

[25]

  • two 20-pounder breach-loading rifles

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  2. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 56.
  3. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  4. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  5. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  6. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  7. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
  8. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  9. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  10. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. pp. 55-56.
  11. ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 16.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 6.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.
  15. ↑ Register of Officers, 1891. p. 6.
  16. ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
  17. ↑ Register of Officers, 1897. p. 6.
  18. ↑ Register of Officers, 1898. p. 6.
  19. ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 8.
  20. ↑ Register of Officers, 1903. p. 8.
  21. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 8.
  22. ↑ Register of Officers, 1909. p. 8.
  23. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  24. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  25. ↑ 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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