U.S.S. Pensacola (1859)
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| U.S.S. Pensacola (1860) | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Pensacola Navy Yard Washington Navy Yard[1] |
| Ordered: | 3 March, 1857[2] |
| Laid down: | March 1858[3] |
| Launched: | 15 August, 1859[4] |
| Commissioned: | 16 September, 1861[5] |
| Decommissioned: | 6 December, 1911[6] |
| Stricken: | 23 December, 1911[7] |
| Sold: | 19 February, 1912[8] |
| Fate: | Burnt May 1912[9] |
U.S.S. Pensacola was a screw sloop completed for the 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.[10]
Service
Commissioned for service on 16 September, 1861.[11]
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.[12]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain William P. McCann, 16 June, 1881[13]
- Captain George Dewey, 10 March, 1885[14]
- Captain Arthur R. Yates, 6 March, 1888[15]
- Captain Albert Kautz, 3 June, 1890[16] – 18 April, 1892[17][18]
- Captain Louis Kempff, 22 November, 1898[19][20] – 3 May, 1899[21] (also commanding Independence)
- Captain Jefferson F. Moser, 2 January, 1902[22] – 10 October, 1904[Inference]
- Captain Charles P. Perkins, 10 October, 1904[23] – 1 January, 1907[Inference] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Captain James H. Bull, 1 January, 1907[24] – 9 August, 1907[Inference] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Commander Edward E. Capehart, 9 August, 1907[25] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Commander Edward W. Eberle, 15 June, 1908[26] (also Commandant, Naval Training Station, San Francisco)
- Commander Alexander S. Halstead, 3 December, 1910[27] – August 1911[28]
Armament
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
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 9.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1899. p. 139.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 16.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1910. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 12.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
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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