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  USS Ashland
SOPA is CTF 61 in USS FREMONT (APA-44).
SOPA and OTC is CTF 61 in USS FREMONT (APA 44).
SOPA is COMSIXTHFLT in USS SPRINGFIELD (CLG 7), OTC is CTF 61 in USS FREMONT (APA 44).
www.ussashland.org /history60.htm   (12320 words)

  
 Boston - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Boston was an educational forerunner, both as part of a British colony and as a U.S. city.
Boston has continued to be a leader in education with more than 65 colleges and universities in the metropolitan area.
Well-known institutions include Northeastern University, Boston University, the Boston campus of the University of Massachusetts, Boston College, and the New England Conservatory of Music, all located in Boston; Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge; Brandeis University in Waltham; Tufts University in Medford; and Wellesley College in Wellesley.
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 USS Boston (1825) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fourth USS Boston was an 18-gun sloop of war, launched 15 October 1825 by Boston Navy Yard and commissioned the following year, Master Commandant B.
Boston served on the Brazil Station 1826-1829 and the Mediterranean Station 1830-1832.
Boston cruised on the West Indies (1836-39), East Indies (1841-43), and Brazil (1843-46) Stations, returning to the United States in 1846.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Boston_(1825)   (183 words)

  
 Text Only Version of Maritime History of Massachusetts--A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
The USS Constitution, a National Historic Landmark, is berthed in Boston Naval Shipyard (Boston National Historical Park), on the south side of Chelsea St. in the Charlestown area of Boston.
USS Cassin Young Built by Bethlehem Steel Corporation in San Pedro, California, and commissioned on December 31, 1943, the USS Cassin Young (DD-793) was at the forefront of the naval offensive against the Japanese during World War II.
USS Cassin Young, a National Historic Landmark administered by the National Park Service, is located at Pier 1 in Boston Naval ShipYard, (Boston National Historical Park) on the south side of Chelsea St. in the Chalrestown area of Boston.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/maritime/text.htm   (17493 words)

  
 USS Ticonderoga Veterans Site
The third USS TICONDEROGA was a captured, German built, merchant ship that was put into service to carry animals, troops, and supplies to Europe in World War I. On September 22nd, 1918, during her third crossing to Europe, TICONDEROGA developed engine troubles and fell behind her convoy.
USS Ticonderoga, a 2526-ton Lackawanna class screw sloop of war built at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, was commissioned in May 1863.
The first USS TICONDEROGA was laid down as a merchant steamer and nearly became the first steam powered warship when purchased by the Navy in 1814 to help even the naval balance on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
www.ussticonderoga.com /info.htm   (1954 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Cumberland (1843-1862)
USS Cumberland, a 1,726-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1825 and 1843 at the Boston Navy Yard.
CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and USS Congress, 8 March 1862.
USS Cumberland is also depicted, though inaccurately, in some views included in our coverage of the Action between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, 9 March 1862.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/cumberld.htm   (1027 words)

  
 Navy Yard
His best-known building is the Ropewalk which, from 1837 until the yard was closed more than a hundred years later, manufactured most of the cordage used by Navy ships ranging in size from destroyer escorts to aircraft carriers.
In the 1960s, as World War II vintage ships were reaching the end of their useful lives, the Boston facility began modernizing the Nation's warships through Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM).
USS Perry was the first destroyer to be remodeled in this program that was intended to add 5 to 7 years to the life of aging ships.
www.charlestownonline.net /navyyard.htm   (823 words)

  
 American Warships of the Age of Sail
USS Pennsylvania, a 3241-ton (burden) 120-gun ship of the line, was the largest sailing warship ever built for the US Navy.
Vermont was laid down at the Boston Navy Yard in September 1818, finished about 1825, and kept on the stocks until finally launched at Boston on 15 September 1848 in the interest of both space and fire safety considerations.
USS Boston, a 700-ton 28-gun frigate, was built at Boston, Massachusetts, paid for by public subscription during the undeclared war with France.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/sail4.htm   (2727 words)

  
 United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient William Bainbridge
In September he was given command of the frigate Constitution, took her to sea on the second of her War of 1812 cruises, and destroyed HMS Java in battle on 29 December 1812.
USS Bainbridge, a 259-ton brig built at the Boston Navy Yard, was commissioned in December 1842.
USS Bainbridge, a 420-ton destroyer that was the first of her class, and the first ship classified as a destroyer by the U.S. Navy, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /WilliamBainbridge.htm   (1662 words)

  
 MWDC
In August of 1921 the burnt out hulk of the USS Granite State was sold at auction for $5000.
Fastened and sheathed with over 100 tons of copper, it was estimated that $70000 of salvageable material could be removed from the hulk.
The November 2, 1965 edition of the Boston Globe reported Norwood resident William Kolb planned on recovering artifacts from the Granite State.
www.mwdc.org /Shipwrecks/ussnewhampshire.html   (720 words)

  
 Boston
The USS Constitution, America’s oldest commissioned ship, dating to 1797, rests in immaculate, four-masted splendor in the nearby Charlestown Naval Yard, a short 10-minute ride on a local ferryboat.
The fully narrated land and water tours take place in authentic WWII amphibious vehicles that are driven through the historic streets of Boston, and then slip quietly into the Charles River for a wonderfully relaxing view of the city.
Boston’s Le Meridien Hotel, while providing a great central location in the old, but remodeled Federal Reserve Bank, and the expected great cuisine in its Julien restaurant, also provided a few shortcomings during my recent six-night stay.
www.travellady.com /articles/article-boston.html   (1102 words)

  
 U.S.S. New Hampshire
U.S.S. New Hampshire after fire at New York City dock in 1921.
It was estimated that $70,000 of salvageable material could be removed from the wreckage, which was fastened and sheathed with over 100 tons of copper.
The November 2, 1965 edition of the Boston Globe reports that Norwood resident William Kolb planned on recovering artifacts from the vessel while he was manning the "Aqua Cabin" underwater habitat, which was placed in 80 feet of water a short distance form the wreck site by the Hektor Scientific Company of Foxboro, Massachusetts.
www.mass.gov /czm/buar/shipwrecks/ua-hampshire.htm   (765 words)

  
 USS Boston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
USS Boston Sloop of War 1840; James A. Flood, Acrylic
The fourth Boston was an 24-gun sloop of war,one of ten 24 gun sloops of war authorized in 1824.
While enroute to her new station Boston was wrecked on Eleuthera Island, Bahamas, during a squall 15 November 1846.
members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/boston_sow.html   (263 words)

  
 Snyder's Treasures -- Thomas John Chew, Esq, Purser USS CONSTITUTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Lieutenant James D. Colt apparently served aboard the USS CONSTITUTION during the time "Old Ironsides" was laid up in New Hampshire at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, serving as a receiving ship for new recruits until she was sent down to the Boston Navy Yard just prior to her 100th birthday (1897).
Whether she was placed in commission or "in service," is unknown, as are the identities of those officers assigned to her there in the nearly fifteen years that followed.
It is very likely that Lieutenant James D. Colt is the son or grandson of James Denison Colt, the noted Boston attorney and Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in the mid to late 19th century.
www.snyderstreasures.com /pages/chew.htm   (1598 words)

  
 Weeden WWII History-Atlantic Theater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Boston was Engineer Bill Graham's home, and he especially relished it.
Returned to Boston and underwent further repairs in the South Boston Navy Yard; we then reported for duty in Escort Division (CortDiv) 56.
Arrived at Boston and underwent voyage repairs and the annual military inspection.
www.ussweeden.org /weehisat.htm   (3281 words)

  
 Dry Dock No. 1, Charlestown Navy Yard
The value of the time and labor consumed in dismantling, heaving down, and refitting, is very great; and the inconvenience of the position in which the workmen are obliged to do the repairs renders the operations slow, and, of course, expensive.
Based on the NPS letter and the City of Boston's decision to leave Dry Dock 2 permanently flooded, the culvert between Dry Dock 1 and the pumps was sealed.
In the early 1990s, the caisson was overhauled at a dry dock in East Boston in anticipation of USS Constitution being docked.
www.hnsa.org /conf2004/papers/carlson.htm   (5753 words)

  
 Boston NHP: Charlestown Navy Yard history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
During the first years of the twentieth century a second drydock was added to handle the largest ships then afloat.
Boston Navy Yard reconditioned many of the ships and repaired British ships damaged by the Germans.
USS Perry was the first destroyer to be remodelled in this program that was intended to add five to seven years to the life of aging ships.
www.nps.gov /bost/bost_lographics/cnyhist.htm   (899 words)

  
 Boston Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Cruise the streets of Boston and view the Charles River waterfront from the water in an authentic World War II amphibious craft.
The USS Constitution, or “Old Ironsides,” a Revolutionary war legend launched in 1797, is the world’s oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Founded in 1881, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the largest orchestral organization in the world.
www.mckessontradeshow.com /boston.html   (480 words)

  
 THE OREGON TRAIL
South of Boston, Route 3 reemerges from the I-93 freeway at Quincy (pop.
The rather modest houses where both men were born, plus a nice garden and a historic church, are preserved as part of the Adams National Historic Site (daily; $3; 617/770-1175), which covers 13 downtown acres starting at a visitors center at 1250 Hancock Street.
This dense forest of cranes, derricks, and scaffolding rises along the south side of the 1930s Fore River Bridge, along Route 3A at the south edge of town.
www.roadtripusa.com /routes/oregontrail/massachusetts/or_quincy.html   (221 words)

  
 USS Duncan
Once again he took sick leave beginning Jan. 1, 1825 and then spent the next three years awaiting orders, at the end of which time he was promoted to Master Commandant, on Mar. 1, 1829.
He joined the USS Guerriere fitting out as the flagship of the squadron which was about to sail for the Mediterranean under Stephen Decatur.
Instructed by the Secretary of the Navy to proceed to the coast of Brazil to relieve the Vandalia.
www.ussduncan.org /silasbio_page8.htm   (1281 words)

  
 Sawyer Library: Help Guides: Boston History Resource Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Boston Athenaeum is "one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries in the United States.
Lewis Hayden (1815-1859), an escaped Kentucky slave, settled in Boston with his wife Harriet in 1849, and their home is the most well-known of Boston's Underground Railroad stations.
Includes trials which took place in the Boston area, such as the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (1921), the Boston Massacre Trials (1770), the Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692), the Lizzie Borden Trial (1893), and the Amistad Trials (1839-1840), in which John Quincy Adams argued the case before the Supreme Court.
www.suffolk.edu /sawlib/subject/bostonhistoryguide.html   (3412 words)

  
 edisto era
transferd to boston august1,1952from thule greenland for discharge.
I was attached to the USS Edisto for the North cruise in the summer of 1961.
I was the junior pilot of the HU-2 detachment aboard the USS EDISTO during Deepfreeze IV, 1958-1959.
www.ussedistoagb2.com /MenofedistfromanotherERA.html   (9557 words)

  
 Commodore Joel Abbot, Camp No. 21, Commodore Joel Abbot Biography
He was attached to the Frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Rogers, and later became the latter's aide and signal officer.
In the naval engagement on Lake Champlain, which occurred not long thereafter, young Abbot bore an active and honorable part, and for his bravery was promoted (April 1st 1818) to a lieutenancy, and was presented with a sword by the United States Congress.
Designed by William Doughty, Alligator was one of two schooners built at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, and is the last known example of the five 12-gun schooners built to stop African slave traders and pirates.
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 Domain of Boston - Official Website for The Camarilla's Boston Domain
The Boston Athenaeum takes up residence in the Italian palazzo on Beacon Street that it calls home to this day.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is founded by Henry Lee Higginson.
For a while, authorities wondered whether MacDonald's murderer was the Boston Strangler because of the similarities between her murder and the Strangler cases in Boston.
www.dboston.dreamhost.com /timelinesneregion.html   (8666 words)

  
 USS Alligator - Islamorada SCUBA Site - Dive Spots
The original USS Alligator was the last remaining example of the five 12-gun schooners used to work against the slave trade and piracy on the ocean.
This 86-foot ship was attempting to protect a convoy from being raided by pirates when it sank in 1825.
Salvaged after going aground, the crew decided it would be best to blow up the ship in order to protect her from further pirating.
www.divespots.com /scuba/view.divespot?spotID=50   (360 words)

  
 Commanders of the USS Constitution
Commanded USS Experiment in the Quasi-War with France, and then Siren during the Barbary War, earning a Congressional silver medal.
Commander Samuel W. Very was in charge of moving the frigate from Portsmouth to Boston under tow in September 1897.
Who was in charge after the relocation and for the period until her recommissioning in 1931, is unknown.
www.polkcounty.org /timonier/commanders/commanders.htm   (3092 words)

  
 History
U.S.S. 6 June 1944 Keel laid down by the Astoria Marine Construction Co. at Astoria, Oregon.
Boat alongside from USS Pickett (ACM 8) with 3 men to report for duty: Melvin J. Coldewey, S2c; Ivan Hughes, F1c; Frank Hague, S2c.
USS Trapper (ACM 9), USS Bastion (ACM 6), YMS’s 231, 291, 425, 426, 432, 436, and 438.
www.ussyms425.com /history.html   (3469 words)

  
 POST OFFICE IN PARADISE - Pre-Treaty Mail
This letter was delivered to the United States Post Office at Boston where it was postmarked April 20, 1826 and rated 12¢ to be collected from the recipient upon delivery in Bristol, Rhode Island.
Thus, if a ship touched London, New York, Boston or some other port with a post office, postal clerks in those cities would rate the letter and postmark it.
Morison, Samuel Eliot, "Boston Traders in the Hawaiian Islands", Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, p.
www.hawaiianstamps.com /pretreaty.html   (1605 words)

  
 A Capitol Fourth . History of the Fourth . July 4th Over the Years | PBS
1825 – President John Q. Adams marches to the Capitol from the White House in a parade that includes a stage mounted on wheels, representing 24 states.
In Boston, a statue of Revolutionary War patriot Samuel Adams is unveiled.
In Boston, the USS Constitution fires her cannons for the first time in 95 years.
www.pbs.org /capitolfourth/occurrences.html   (1855 words)

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