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Revision as of 20:51, 3 November 2015

U.S.S. Dale (1839)
Builder: Philadelphia NYd[1]
Ordered: 3 March, 1837[2]
Laid down: 1839[3]
Launched: 8 November, 1839[4]
Commissioned: 11 December, 1840[5]
Tranferred: 23 July, 1906[6]
Fate: To Treasury Department

U.S.S. Dale was a sailing sloop-of-war completed for the U.S. Navy in 1840. She survived into the early twentieth century as a receiving ship and a school ship.

Construction

Designed by John Lenthall and similiar to the earlier Peacock of 1828.[7]

Service

Dale became a training ship at Annapolis in 1867. By 1884 she was a receiving ship at Washington, D.C. Transfered to the Maryland Naval Militia in 1895. Renamed Oriole on 30 November, 1904. Transferred to the Coast Guard on 23 July, 1906. Returned to Navy control on 19 September, 1921, she was sold three months later on 20 December, 1921.[8][9][10]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

1876

[17]

  • eight 32-pounders

1889

[18]

  • nil

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  6. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  7. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  8. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  9. Silverstone. Civil War. p. 95.
  10. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  11. Register of Officers, 1882. p. 11.
  12. Register of Officers, 1890. p. 8.
  13. Register of Officers, 1891. p. 8.
  14. Register of Officers, 1892. p. 8.
  15. List and Station, July 1894. p. 6.
  16. Register of Officers, 1895. p. 8.
  17. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.
  18. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 20.

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.