U.S.S. Tennessee (1865)

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U.S.S. Tennessee (1865)
Builder: New York Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: c. July 1863[2]
Laid down: late 1863[3]
Launched: 8 Jul, 1865[4]
Commissioned: 27 Jun, 1866[5]
Sold: 15 Sep, 1866[6]
Fate: Broken up

U.S.S. Tennessee was one of two Wampanoag Class screw frigates completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Madawaska was renamed Tennessee on 15 May 1869.[7]

By July 1887 she was rated as unserviceable and was authorized to be sold.[8]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 57.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 57.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 57.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 57.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 57.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
  7. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 58.
  8. Register of Officers, 1887. p. 175.
  9. Register of Officers, 1868. pp. 19-20.
  10. Register of Officers, 1880. p. 14.
  11. Fitchburg Sentinel (Fitchburg, MA) 29 July, 1882 p. 2.
  12. Register of Officers, 1884. p. 13.

Bibliography


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