USS Resaca (1865)

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History
United States
NameUSS Resaca
Builder
Portsmouth Navy Yard
, Maine
Cost$201,229.19
Launched18 November 1865
Commissioned1866
Decommissioned1872
FateSold, 18 February 1873
General characteristics
Class and typeThird-class screw steamer
Displacement1,129 long tons (1,147 t)
Length216 ft (66 m) p/p
Beam31 ft (9.4 m)
Draft12 ft (3.7 m)
Speed11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement213
Armament
  • 1 × 150-pounder rifle
  • 6 × 32-pounder guns
  • 2 × 24-pounder howitzers
NotesTotal cost of naval repairs while in service was $110,048.70.

USS Resaca was a third-class screw steamer of the

Portsmouth Navy Yard, Maine at a cost of $201,229.19, the ship was launched on 18 November 1865, and commissioned in 1866, Comdr. J. M. Bradford in command.[1]

Service history

1866–1869

Assigned to the

Alaska Territory until returning in 1869 to San Francisco
.

1869–1872

Proceeding to

.

Sale and wreck

Resaca was sold on 18 February 1873 at Mare Island to Messrs. Christopher Nelson, Charles Goodall, and George C. Perkins, for $41,000. Rebuilt by Dickie Bros. at San Francisco for service as a steamer capable of carrying 145 passengers, Resaca was renamed Ventura. Subsequently, on 16 February 1875, she became the property of the Goodall, Nelson, and Perkins Steam Ship Co. engaged in coastwise California service. While serving in this capacity, Ventura was wrecked off Point Sur on 20 April 1875 and lost. Reports accused the captain of being drunk and the ship hit a cluster of rocks just north of Point Sur. Everyone aboard reached shore safely, leaving the ship to break up on the rocks and slowly sink.[3]

References

  1. ^ United States. Naval War Records Office; United States. Office of Naval Records and Library (1921). Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 191. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
  2. ^ Gatewood, J.D. (1909). Naval hygiene. P. Blakiston's son & Company. p. 72. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
  3. ^ "Point Sur State Historic Park-History". www.pointsur.org. Retrieved 12 April 2020.