U.S.S. Hartford (1858)
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U.S.S. Hartford (1858) | |
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Hull Number: | IX-13 |
Builder: | Boston Navy Yard[1] |
Ordered: | 3 March, 1857[2] |
Laid down: | 1 January, 1858[3] |
Launched: | 22 November, 1858[4] |
Commissioned: | 27 May, 1859[5] |
Decommissioned: | 20 August, 1926[6] |
Lost: | 20 November, 1956[7] |
Fate: | Sank at Norfolk NYd Broken up 1957 |
U.S.S. Hartford was a screw sloop commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1859.
Construction
Hartford's hull was designed by Benjamin F. Delano, and her machinery was contracted to Harrison Loring of Boston.[8]
Service
During 1880 she was re-engined with new compound engines converted from a set originally built for the scrapped river monitor Keywadin.[9]
By 1899, she was serving as a training ship.
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Henry A. Adams Jr., 1877 – 1 February, 1878[10] (Died while in command)
- Captain Charles C. Carpenter, 10 June, 1882[11]
- Captain George H. Perkins, 1885[12] – 1886[13]
- Commander John M. Hawley, 2 October, 1899[14]
- Captain William H. Reeder, 23 November, 1901[15]
- Captain Ten E. D. W. Veeder, 20 November, 1903[16] – October 1907[17] (also in charge of all ships at Naval Academy from 19 September, 1905[18])
- Commander Albert P. Niblack, 5 October, 1907[19] – after 1 January, 1909[20] (also in command of ships at Naval Academy)
- Commander Archibald H. Scales, 11 June, 1910[21] – after 1 January, 1912[22] (also commanding Olympia and ships at Naval Academy)
- Commander Warren J. Terhune, 25 November, 1913[23] (also Captain of the Yard, Navy Yard, Charleston)
- Lieutenant Commander Farmer Morrison, 30 July, 1915[24]
- Commander Mark St. C. Ellis, 27 September, 1918[25]
Armament
1872
- two 11-inch smoothbores
- sixteen 9-inch smoothbores
- two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
1882
- one 8-inch muzzle-loading rifle
- twelve 9-inch smoothbores
- one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
1894
- thirteen 5-inch breech-loading rifles
1905
- nine 5-inch breech-loading rifles
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. Navy of World War II. p. 286.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 63.
- ↑ New York Daily Herald 20 March, 1878 p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 9.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (3th ed). p. 50.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (3th ed). p. 50.
- ↑ List and Station, July 1900. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1903. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. pp. 10, 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1909. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1914. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1917. p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1919. pp. 22-23.
- ↑ 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.
- Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
- 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.
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2008). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The Navy of World War II, 1922-1947. New York: Routledge.
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