U.S.S. Minnesota (1855)

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U.S.S. Minnesota (1855)
Builder: Washington Navy Yard[1]
Ordered: 6 April, 1854[2]
Laid down: May 1854[3]
Launched: 1 December, 1855[4]
Commissioned: 21 May, 1857[5]
Stricken: 12 July, 1901[6]
Sold: 12 August, 1901[7]
Fate: Burnt

U.S.S. Minnesota was a screw frigate completed for the U.S. Navy in 1857 that served as a training ship during the late nineteenth century.

Construction

Service

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Armament

[14]

1873

  • two 11-inch smoothbores
  • two 100-pounder muzzle-loading rifles
  • forty-two 9-inch smoothbores

1875

  • one 11-inch smoothbore
  • twenty-six 9-inch smoothbores
  • four 32-pounder smoothbores

1878

  • one 11-inch smoothbore
  • thirty-eight 9-inch muzzle-loading rifles
  • four 32-pounder smoothbores
  • two 20-pounder muzzle-loading rifles

1879

  • twenty-four 9-inch smoothbores
  • sixteen 32-pounder smoothbores
  • two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles

1882

  • twenty-four 9-inch smoothbores
  • one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
  • two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles

1887

  • eight 9-inch smoothbores
  • one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
  • two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles

1890

  • eight 9-inch smoothbores
  • one 60-pounder breech-loading rifle
  • two 20-pounder breech-loading rifles

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  2. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  3. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  4. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  5. Bauer and Roberts. Register of Ships. p. 55.
  6. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
  7. Silverstone. The New Navy. p. 1.
  8. Register of Officers, 1880. p. 9.
  9. Register of Officers, 1882. p. 9.
  10. Register of Officers, 1887. p. 6.
  11. Register of Officers, 1891. p. 6.
  12. Register of Officers, 1892. p. 6.
  13. Register of Officers, 1895. p. 6.
  14. 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.


Screw Frigate U.S.S. Minnesota