Delaware Class Ship of the Line (1820)
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Two Delaware class ships of the line survived into the twentieth century in U.S. Navy service as receiving ships.
| Overview of six vessels | |||||
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| Citations for this data available on individual ship pages | |||||
| Name | Builder | Laid Down | Launched | Commissioned | Fate |
| Delaware | Norfolk NYd | Aug 1817 | 21 Oct, 1820 | by 10 Feb, 1828 | Scuttled 20 Apr, 1861 |
| Vermont | Boston NYd | Sep, 1818 | 14 Sep, 1848 | 30 Jan, 1862 | Sold 15 Apr, 1902 |
| New Hampshire | Portsmouth NYd | 1 Jun, 1819 | 23 Jan, 1864 | 11 May, 1864 | Lost 23 May, 1921 |
| Virginia | Boston NYd | May 1822 | — | — | Broken up 1884 |
| New York | Norfolk NYd | May 1820 | — | — | Sabotaged 20 Apr, 1861 |
| North Carolina | Philadelphia NYd | Jun 1816 | 7 Sep, 1820 | by 18 Dec, 1824 | Sold 1 Oct, 1867 |
Design & Construction
Designed by William Doughty. Neither Virginia or New York were ever launched—Virginia was broken up on the ways in 1884 and New York was burnt by retreating U.S. Navy personnel when Virginia seceded from the Union after the bombardment of Fort Sumter.[1]
Performance
Described by one source as a "highly successful class".[2]
Armament
See individual articles.
See Also
Footnotes
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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