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The contract to build Stonewall Jackson was awarded to Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, California, on 21 July 1961 and her keel was laid down there on 4 July 1962.. She was launched on 30 November 1963, sponsored by Miss Julia Christian McAfee, great-granddaughter of General Jackson, [1] [2] and commissioned on 26 August 1964, with Commander John H. Nicholson in command of the Blue Crew ...
USS Semmes (DD-189) (destroyer) 21 February 1920: 2 June 1946: USS Semmes (DDG-18) (guided-missile destroyer) 30 November 1962: 14 April 1991: Stonewall Jackson (Confederate general) USS Stonewall (1863) (tender, blockade runner) February 1863: May 1865: Captured, former confederate name retained. [8] USS Stonewall (IX-185) (tanker) 18 ...
USS Stonewall is a name used more than once by the United States Navy: USS Stonewall (1863) , a schooner captured by the Union Navy and placed in service as a ship's tender. USS Stonewall (IX-185) , a tanker built in 1921 at Alameda, California , by the Bethlehem Steel Company.
CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Stonewall Jackson was selected in January 1862, by Capt. James E. Montgomery to be part of his River Defense Fleet at New Orleans. On 25 January Montgomery began to convert her into a cottonclad ram by placing a 4-inch (100 mm) oak sheath ...
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Stonewall Jackson’s military career consists of a combination of various brevet, temporary, and permanent appointments in no less than five different military organizations. Stonewall Jackson was also a civilian military instructor (while still granted military status as an officer) and when the Civil War began Jackson became an officer in ...
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Stonewall was a Southern pilot boat captured by Union screw gunboat USS Tahoma on, or sometime shortly before, 24 February 1863. She was placed in service as a tender to Tahoma pending legal proceedings against her at Key West, Florida.