USS Illinois
USS Illinois Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Illinois in honor of the 21st state. The first USS Illinois (sloop) , a screw sloop-of ...
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USS Vandalia (1828)
USS Vandalia (1828) InsertCaptionHere Career Laid down: 1825 ... The first Vandalia was a 18-gun sloop-of-war in the United States Navy ... was named for the city of Vandalia, Illinois. Vandaliawas laid down at the Philadelphia Navy ... April, and was laid up. During the sloop's period in ordinary which lasted until ... the blockade at Wassaw Sound, Georgia . The sloop returned to Port Royal, South Carolina, ...
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List of museum ships
... — Sydney, Australia — attack patrol boat USS Alabama (BB-60) — Mobile, Alabama — WWII South Dakota-class battleship USS Albacore — Portsmouth, New Hampshire — experimental ... — Cité des Sciences , Paris — submarine USS Arizona (BB-39) — Pearl Harbor, Hawaii ... — steel hulled square-rigged sailing ship USS Barry — Washington, D.C. — destroyer ... — Lelystad, The Netherlands — East Indiaman USS Batfish — Muskogee, Oklahoma — Balao- ...
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Thomas MacDonough
... MacDonough was assigned to the 38-gun USS Constellation as the navy began its post-war reduction. While serving onboard the USS Constellation, MacDonough participated with distinction in early ... MacDonough was transferred to the 38 gun USS Philadelphia in 1803 shortly before its capture ... on October 31 to the 12-gun sloop the USS Enterprise under the command of Lieutenant ...
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John Hancock
... In 1768, upon arriving from England, his sloop Liberty was impounded by British customs officials ... Hancock County after him. They are: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee ... John Hancock Center, major skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois USS John Hancock, an 1850 steam tug USS Hancock (CV-19), a World War ...
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Henry A. Walke
... November 1828, cruised the West Indies in sloop Natchez in the campaign against pirates in ... While Lt. Walke was assigned to that sloop of war, she made a cruise to ... September, he was transferred to the screw sloop Sacramento, which he commanded through the final ... commanded the naval station at Mound City, Illinois. While waiting orders to his next assignment ... in the United States Navy were named USS Walke for him. This article includes ...
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User:AllyUnion/Did you know archive
... operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from ... Charles Butler McVay III, commander of the USS Indianapolis, was blamed when it was lost ... government to commission the first warship, the Sloop of War Providence in what became the ... countries? ...that James Glynn, captain of the USS Preble, was the first American to negotiate ... Sakoku ("closed country") Japan, in 1848? (Image:USS Preble.jpg) ...that the Tarim mummies ...
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Selim E. Woodworth
... six months, he reported to the new sloop-of-war Jamestown and served in her ... the Rocky Mountains— Woodworth reported on board sloop-of-war Warren at Monterey Bay, California ... the Mississippi Squadron and reported at Cairo, Illinois, for duty. On 1 January 1863, he ... in 1872 and died there in 1873. USS Woodworth (DD-460) was named for him ...
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John Ancrum Winslow
... assist him as executive officer. At Cairo, Illinois, Winslow labored to fit out and man ... he was to assume command of screw sloop Kearsarge. Two days later, he went to ... at Fayal until spring. When the screw sloop finally returned early in April 1863, he ... the United States Navy have been named USS Winslow for him. A third Winslow honored ...
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Oliver Hazard Perry
... ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop". While this opened Canada up to possible ... County, Alabama, Perry Country Arkansas , Perry County, Illinois, Perry County, Indiana, Perry County, Kentucky, Perry ... Perry, the Oliver Hazard Perry class. See USS Perry for other ships named for him ...
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