U.S.S. Lancaster (1858)
| U.S.S. Lancaster (1858) | |
|---|---|
| Builder: | Philadelphia Navy Yard[1] |
| Ordered: | 3 March, 1857[2] |
| Laid down: | December 1857[3] |
| Launched: | 20 October, 1858[4] |
| Commissioned: | 12 May, 1859[5] |
| Stricken: | 31 December, 1915[6] |
| Transferred: | 1 February, 1913[7] |
| Fate: | to Public Health Service Broken up 1933 |
U.S.S. Lancaster was a screw sloop completed for the U.S. Navy in 1859.
Construction
Her machinery was contracted to Reaney & Neafie.[8]
Service
Lancaster was commissioned on 12 May, 1859.
Lancaster was recommissioned in May 1898 for service as a station ship at Key West during the Spanish-American War, and remained in commission after the war as a gunnery training ship. In 1903 she was housed over and became a receiving ship at the Philadelphia Navy Yard through 1912. On 1 February, 1913 she was transferred to the United States Public Health Service for use as a quarantine ship at Reedy Island, Delaware. In 1920 the Public Health Service moved her to New York. Her time as a quarantine ship ended in 1930 and she was transferred to the Treasury Department on 29 May, 1933 and sold for breaking up the same year.[9][10]
Captains
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
- Captain Henry K. Hoff, 1861[11] – 1862[12]
- Captain S. Livingston Breese, 15 September, 1886[13]
- Captain Theodore F. Kane, 6 May 1888[14]
- Captain Henry B. Seely, 19 March, 1891[15]
- Captain William Bainbridge Hoff, 12 September, 1895[16]
- Captain Yates Stirling, November 1896[17] – 31 December, 1897[18][19]
- Commander Thomas Perry, 5 May, 1898[20][21]
- Commander Henry B. Mansfield, December, 1899[22]
- Captain Conway H. Arnold, 30 August, 1903[23] – 17 October, 1904[Inference]
- Captain Francis H. Delano, 17 October, 1904[24]
- Captain James M. Miller, 3 April, 1906[25] – 16 November, 1907[Inference]
- Captain Albert G. Berry, 16 November, 1907[26] – after 1 January, 1909[27]
- Captain John L. Purcell, 21 March, 1910[28] – 1 December, 1911[29][Inference]
- Commander William W. Gilmer, 1 December, 1911[30]
Armament
1869
- two 11-inch smoothbores
- twenty 9-inch smoothbores
1881
- ten 8-inch muzzle-loading rifles
- two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles
1888
- ten 8-inch muzzle-loading rifles
1895
- ten 5-inch/40 caliber
- two 5-inch/30 caliber
1899
- ten 5-inch/40 caliber
1905
- nine 5-inch/40 caliber
1909
- ten 5-inch/40 caliber
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ NavSrouce.org
- ↑ NavSrouce.org
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. pp. 6, 138.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1896. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1897. p. 6.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1898. p. 6.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ List and Station, July 1898. p. 6.
- ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1900. p. 12.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 8.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1905. p. 10.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 62.
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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