USS Delaware (1820)
Model of USS Delaware
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Delaware |
Builder | Norfolk Navy Yard |
Laid down | August 1817 |
Launched | 21 October 1820 |
Commissioned | before 10 February 1828 |
Decommissioned | before 22 March 1844 |
Fate | Burned 20 April 1861 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ship of the line |
Tonnage | 2633 |
Length | 196 ft 2 in (59.79 m) |
Beam | 53 ft (16 m) |
Draft | 26 ft 2 in (7.98 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 820 officers and men |
Armament |
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The third USS Delaware of the United States Navy was a 74-gun ship of the line, named for the state of Delaware.
She was laid down at
Delaware put to sea on 10 February 1828 under the command of
Delaware was decommissioned on 10 February, and lay in ordinary at Norfolk until 1833. Recommissioned on 15 July 1833, she received President Andrew Jackson aboard on 29 July, firing a 24-gun salute at both his arrival and departure. The following day she set sail for the Mediterranean where she served as flagship for Commodore D. T. Patterson and cruised on goodwill visits and for the protection of the rights and property of American citizens until her return to Hampton Roads on 16 February 1836.[3] She was placed in ordinary from 10 March 1836 until recommissioned on 7 May 1841 for local operations from Norfolk.
Delaware sailed on 1 November for a tour of duty on the
Notes
- ^ Gordon, John Steele (February 1993). "USS Boondoggle: The Business of America". American Heritage. 44 (1). Retrieved 1 August 2022.
Consider the Navy's ship-of-the-line program that followed the War of 1812… Congress, on April 29, 1816, 'authorized to cause to be built, nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each'. All nine were eventually laid down, in shipyards from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Norfolk, Virginia, and four of them were completed in a timely manner by the end of 1820. None of these ships ever saw action, of course, for the world had entered an extended era of peace.
- ^ Fenimore Cooper, James (1843). Ned Myers, Or, A Life Before the Mast. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Lea and Blanchard. pp. 172.
- ^ Sharp, John G.M., The USS Delaware in Letters & Documents http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/portsmouth/shipyard/sharptoc/dd1-delaware.html Retrieved 14 September 2021
- ^ "BURNING OF GOSPORT NAVY-YARD; Eleven Vessels Scuttled and Burned, The Steam Tug Yankee Tows the Cumberland to Sea, Norfolk Not on Fire". The New York Times. New York City. 24 April 1861. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
The Government vessels had been scuttled in the afternoon before the Pawnee arrived, to prevent their being seized by the Secessionists … The following are the names of the vessels which were destroyed: Pennsylvania, 74 gun-ship; steam-frigate Merrimac, 44 guns; sloop-of-war Germantown, 22 guns; sloop Plymouth, 22 guns; frigate Raritan, 45 guns; frigate Columbia, 44 guns; Delaware, 74 gun-ship; Columbus, 74 gun-ship; United States, in ordinary; brig Dolphin, 8 guns; and the powder-boat … [plus] line-of-battle ship New-York, on the stocks … Large quantities of provisions, cordage and machinery were also destroyed — besides buildings of great value — but it is not positively known that the [dry] dock was blown up.
External links
- (New York: Norton, 1949)
- Remarks and Occurrences on Board the U.S. Ship of the Line Delaware, 1835-1836, MS 16 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.