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She was launched on September 4, 1855. [1] Her sister ship Arago was built by Westervelt & Sons. They were both constructed in 1855 for the New York & Havre Steam Navigation Company, then under contract with the United States Government to deliver mail between New York and Le Havre, France. [2] Both were named for steamship pioneers.
The Confederacy, in desperate need of ships, raised Merrimack and rebuilt her as an ironclad ram, according to a design prepared by Lt. John Mercer Brooke, CSN. Commissioned as CSS Virginia 17 February 1862, the ironclad was the hope of the Confederacy to destroy the wooden ships in Hampton Roads , and to end the Union blockade which had ...
Later, Young America rescued the crew of Union gunboat USS Whitehall when fire destroyed that vessel on 10 March 1862. She also rescued personnel on board Henry Adams, grounded at Nag's Head, North Carolina, on 26 August 1862. Young America left for repairs at the Baltimore Navy Yard in September.
Built in 1854, the ship, now located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, spent its early days preventing the illegal importation of Africans to America by capturing slave ships en route.
USS Wabash was a steam screw frigate of the United States Navy that served during the American Civil War.She was based on the same plans as Colorado.Post-war she continued to serve her country in European operations and eventually served as a barracks ship in Boston, Massachusetts, and was sold in 1912.
A 9-inch gun from the famous wooden heavy frigate U.S.S. Minnesota (1855-1901) of the American Civil War and late 19th century era on display in New Hope, Pennsylvania Ordered back north to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at Kittery, Maine / Portsmouth, New Hampshire , Minnesota was then decommissioned and stricken from the lists of the U.S. Navy ...