U.S.S. Wabash (1855)
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| 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 |
Contents
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.
- Commander Christopher R. P. Rodgers, 1861 – September, 1862
- Commander Francis M. Bunce, 27 April, 1882[12]
- Captain Joseph N. Miller, 30 April, 1885[13]
- Captain Charles C. Carpenter, 28 April, 1888[14]
- Captain Edmund O. Matthews, 31 May, 1890[15] – July, 1891
- Captain James O'Kane, 18 August, 1891[16]
- Captain Albert Kautz, 20 August, 1894[17]
- Captain Henry F. Picking, 5 April, 1897[18]
- Captain George H. Wadleigh, 2 December, 1898[19]
- Captain George W. Pigman, 12 December, 1901[20] – 3 October, 1903[21][Inference]
- Captain Asa Walker, 3 October, 1904[22]
- Captain John M. Hawley, 24 January, 1906[23] – 4 July, 1907[Inference]
- Captain Arthur P. Nazro, 4 July, 1907[24] – 4 January, 1909[Inference]
- Captain Charles E. Fox, 4 January, 1909[25] – 5 December, 1910[26][Inference]
- Captain Edward Lloyd, Jr., 5 December, 1910[27] – 15 October, 1911[28][29][Inference]
- Commander Charles P. Plunkett, 15 October, 1911[30] – after 1 January, 1912[31]
Armament
1871
- one 11-inch smoothbore
- two 100-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
- forty-two 9-inch smoothbores
1887
- eighteen 9-inch smoothbores
- two 20-pounder breach-loading rifles
1893
- two 20-pounder breach-loading rifles
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 56.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. pp. 55-56.
- ↑ Silverstone. Civil War. p. 16.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1891. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1897. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1898. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1903. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1906. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1909. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1911. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 14.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
- ↑ 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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