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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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<div name=fredbot:officeCapt otitle="Captain of U.S.S. ''Wabash''">
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers|nick=Christopher R. P. Rodgers|appt=1861|end=September, 1862}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Francis Marvin Bunce|nick=Francis M. Bunce|appt=27 April, 1882{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Francis Marvin Bunce|nick=Francis M. Bunce|appt=27 April, 1882{{USOfficerReg1882|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Joseph Nelson Miller|nick=Joseph N. Miller|appt=30 April, 1885{{USOfficerReg1887|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Joseph Nelson Miller|nick=Joseph N. Miller|appt=30 April, 1885{{USOfficerReg1887|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Charles Carroll Carpenter|nick=Charles C. Carpenter|appt=28 April, 1888{{USOfficerReg1890|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Charles Carroll Carpenter|nick=Charles C. Carpenter|appt=28 April, 1888{{USOfficerReg1890|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Edmund Orville Matthews|nick=Edmund O. Matthews|appt=31 May, 1890{{USOfficerReg1891|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Edmund Orville Matthews|nick=Edmund O. Matthews|appt=31 May, 1890{{USOfficerReg1891|p. 6}}|end=July, 1891}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=James O'Kane|nick=James O'Kane|appt=18 August, 1891{{USOfficerReg1892|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=James O'Kane|nick=James O'Kane|appt=18 August, 1891{{USOfficerReg1892|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Albert Kautz|nick=Albert Kautz|appt=20 August, 1894{{USOfficerReg1897|p. 6}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Albert Kautz|nick=Albert Kautz|appt=20 August, 1894{{USOfficerReg1897|p. 6}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Asa Walker|nick=Asa Walker|appt=3 October, 1904{{USOfficerReg1906|p. 8}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Asa Walker|nick=Asa Walker|appt=3 October, 1904{{USOfficerReg1906|p. 8}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=John Mitchell Hawley|nick=John M. Hawley|appt=24 January, 1906{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 8}}|end=4 July, 1907{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=John Mitchell Hawley|nick=John M. Hawley|appt=24 January, 1906{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 8}}|end=4 July, 1907{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Arthur Phillips Nazro|nick=Arthur P. Nazro|appt=4 July, 1907{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 8}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Arthur Phillips Nazro|nick=Arthur P. Nazro|appt=4 July, 1907{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 8}}|end=4 January, 1909{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Charles Eben Fox|nick=Charles E. Fox|appt=4 January, 1909{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 8}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Charles Eben Fox|nick=Charles E. Fox|appt=4 January, 1909{{USOfficerReg1909|p. 8}}|end=5 December, 1910{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 10}}{{INF}}}}
{{TenureListEnd}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CaptUS}}|name=Edward Lloyd, Jr.|nick=Edward Lloyd, Jr.|appt=5 December, 1910{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 10}}|end=15 October, 1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 14}}{{USOfficerReg1911|p. 10}}{{INF}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{CommUS}}|name=Charles Peshall Plunkett|nick=Charles P. Plunkett|appt=15 October, 1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 14}}|end=after 1 January, 1912{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 14}}}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>


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==See Also==
==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wabash_(1855)}}
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Latest revision as of 19:53, 26 May 2022

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

[32]

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

1887

[33]

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

1893

[34]

  • 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, 1904. p. 8.
  22. Register of Officers, 1906. p. 8.
  23. Register of Officers, 1907. p. 8.
  24. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 8.
  25. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 8.
  26. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
  27. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
  28. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
  29. Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
  30. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
  31. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
  32. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  33. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  34. 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.


Receiving Ship U.S.S. Wabash