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Revision as of 23:39, 16 December 2014

U.S.S. Constellation (1854)
Hull Number: IX-20
Builder: Norfolk Navy Yard[1]
Laid down: 1853[2]
Launched: 26 August, 1854[3]
Commissioned: 28 July, 1855[4]
Stricken: 15 August, 1955[5]
Preserved: 7 August, 1955
Fate: Museum at Baltimore, Maryland

U.S.S. Constellation is a sailing sloop-of-war completed for the U.S. Navy in 1855.

Construction

Constellation was notionally a repair of the famous Constellation of 1798, one of the original six frigates built for the United States Navy.[6] This caused some confusion after she became a museum ship, and for some time she was erroneously presented to the public as the original Constellation.[7]

Service

From 1865 through 1933, Constellation served variously as both a training ship and a receiving ship at Norfolk Navy Yard, Annapolis, and Newport.[8]

Renamed Old Constellation on 1 December, 1917 to clear her name for a new Lexington Class battlecruiser, but after those ships fell victim to the Washington Treaty she regained her old name on 24 July, 1925.[9]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

[24]

1876

  • one 100-pounder muzzle-loading rifle
  • one 11-inch smoothbore
  • eight 9-inch smoothbores

1880

  • ten 9-inch smoothbores
  • two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles

1888

  • ten 8-inch smoothbores
  • two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles

1891

  • ten 8-inch smoothbores
  • one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
  • one 20-pounder breech-loading rifle

1900

  • six 6-pounders

1916

  • two 6-pounders

See Also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.
  2. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.
  3. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.
  4. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.
  5. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.
  6. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.
  7. ↑ Wegner, Ratliff, and Lynaugh. "Fouled Anchors".
  8. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  9. ↑ Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 3.
  10. ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 10.
  11. ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. p. 8.
  12. ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. p. 8.
  13. ↑ Register of Officers, 1887. pp. 8, 10.
  14. ↑ Register of Officers, 1896. p. 8.
  15. ↑ List and Station, July 1898. p. 6.
  16. ↑ List and Station, July 1899. pp. 5, 7.
  17. ↑ List and Station, July 1899. p. 7.
  18. ↑ Register of Officers, 1903. p. 8.
  19. ↑ Register of Officers, 1904. p. 8.
  20. ↑ Register of Officers, 1907. p. 12.
  21. ↑ Register of Officers, 1908. p. 12.
  22. ↑ Register of Officers, 1910. p. 14.
  23. ↑ Register of Officers, 1912. p. 16.
  24. ↑ Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 23.

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.
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2008). The U.S. Navy Warship Series: The Navy of World War II, 1922-1947. New York: Routledge.
  • Wegner, Dana M., Ratliff, Colan, and Lynaugh, Kevin (September 1991). "Fouled Anchors: The Constellation Question Answered". Bethesda, MD: David Taylor Research Center.


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