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USS Princeton was a screw steam warship of the United States Navy.Commanded by Captain Robert F. Stockton, Princeton was launched on September 5, 1843.. On February 28, 1844, during a Potomac River pleasure cruise for dignitaries, one gun exploded, killing six people, including Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur and Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, and injuring others, including a ...
USS Princeton may refer to: USS Princeton (1843) , a screw sloop, launched and commissioned in 1843, the first screw-driven vessel in the Navy and the subject of a fatal gun explosion in 1844 USS Princeton (1851) , a transport and training ship, launched in 1851 and commissioned in 1852
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The world's first monitor, USS Monitor, was both designed and built by Ericsson for the Union Navy in the American Civil War; Torpedo technology, especially Destroyer, an advanced torpedo boat; The solar machine, using concave mirrors to gather sun radiation strong enough to run an engine. USS Princeton (1843) Hoop gun construction; the propeller
This ship became USS Princeton, the Navy's first screw-propelled steamer. The ship was designed by John Ericsson. Stockton commanded her when she was completed in 1843. The ship was armed with two long 225-pounder wrought iron guns, called the "Peacemaker" and the "Oregon".
USS Poinsett (1840) was a smaller craft that would later be armed with 2 guns. By then the U.S. Navy already had the screw corvette USS Princeton (1843) under construction. The first steam frigates of the United States were USS Mississippi (1841) and USS Missouri (1841). These were two very big steam paddle frigates commissioned in 1841 and 1842.
A lithograph of the Princeton disaster (1844) A ceremonial cruise down the Potomac River was held aboard the newly built USS Princeton on February 28, 1844, the day after completion of the annexation treaty. Aboard the ship were 400 guests, including Tyler and his cabinet, as was the world's largest naval gun, the "Peacemaker".
USS Princeton from 1843. He was born in Gausdal in Oppland, Norway. In 1826 he entered the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (Sjøkrigsskolen) in Fredriksværn (now Stavern). In 1831 he became a secondary lieutenant, and in 1833 he graduated from the military college. In 1834 he became an assistant at the naval shipbuilding inspection station.