USS Resaca (1865)
History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Resaca |
Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard , Maine |
Cost | $201,229.19 |
Launched | 18 November 1865 |
Commissioned | 1866 |
Decommissioned | 1872 |
Fate | Sold, 18 February 1873 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Third-class screw steamer |
Displacement | 1,129 long tons (1,147 t) |
Length | 216 ft (66 m) p/p |
Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Complement | 213 |
Armament |
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Notes | Total cost of naval repairs while in service was $110,048.70. |
USS Resaca was a third-class screw steamer of the
Service history
1866–1869
Assigned to the
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gatewood, J.D. (1909). Naval hygiene. P. Blakiston's son & Company. p. 72. Retrieved 2015-01-10.
- ^ "Point Sur State Historic Park-History". www.pointsur.org. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.