USS Sacramento (1862)
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USS Sacramento spar deck plan
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Sacramento |
Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
Launched | 28 April 1862 |
Commissioned | 7 January 1863 |
Decommissioned | 21 August 1865 |
Recommissioned | 17 September 1866 |
Fate | Grounded and wrecked, 19 June 1867 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Screw sloop-of-war |
Displacement | 2,100 long tons (2,100 t) |
Length | 229 ft 6 in (69.95 m) |
Beam | 38 ft (12 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 10 in (2.69 m) |
Depth of hold | 16 ft 7 in (5.05 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Speed | 12.5 kn (14.4 mph; 23.2 km/h) |
Complement | 161 officers and enlisted |
Armament | 1 × 150-pounder rifle, 2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore guns, 1 × 30-pounder rifle, 2 × 24-pounder howitzers, 2 × 12-pounder rifles, 2 × 12-pounder smoothbore guns |
The first USS Sacramento was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.
Sacramento was
Civil War, 1863-1865
Sacramento's first assignment was blockade duty off the North Carolina coast as part of the effort to eliminate Confederate shipping operations at Wilmington. During her cruising off the Western Bar at Wilmington on 1 May 1863, she captured the British blockade runner Wanderer. Ordered to European waters after refitting, Sacramento departed Boston on 2 February 1864, calling at the Azores, Cape Town, and the Canary Islands before arriving at Cherbourg, France on 5 July. Subsequently, she cruised off the British and French coasts in the search for Confederate vessels engaged in both commerce raiding and blockade running operations.[citation needed] On 16 August, she collided with and sank the Norwegian brig Ceres in the English Channel 9 nautical miles (17 km) south south west of Plymouth, Devon. Sacramento rescued her crew.[1] She collided with, and severely damaged, the Swedish schooner Victor on 22 August and subsequently put in to Vlissingen, Zeeland, Netherlands.[2] Sacramento assisted in blockading the Confederate gun vessel CSS Rappahannock detained at Calais, France, in early 1865, and in March joined USS Niagara off Ferrol, Spain, to observe the movements of the formidable Confederate casemate turret ram Stonewall bound for Cuba from Bordeaux, France. Departing Queenstown, Ireland on 25 July, after the conclusion of hostilities in home waters, Sacramento arrived at Boston on 12 August. Decommissioned on 21 August at the Boston Navy Yard, she remained inactive into 1866.
Voyage to East Asia, 1866-1867
Recommissioned on 17 September 1866, Sacramento was assigned to special service in
See also
- List of sloops of war of the United States Navy
- Bibliography of early American naval history
- Confederate States Navy
- Union Navy
- Union Blockade
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
External links
- Photos of USS Sacramento
- U.S. Steamer Sacramento Watch, Quarter & Station Bills, 1866-1917 (bulk 1866-1867), MS 72 held by Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library at the United States Naval Academy