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  USS Cumberland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
USS Cumberland, a 1,726-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1825 and 1843 at the Boston Navy Yard.
In 1855-56, Cumberland was converted to a sloop of war, allowing her to carry a battery of heavier, though fewer, guns.
Cumberland was anchored off Newport News, Virginia, on 8 March 1862, when the ironclad CSS Virginia came out to attack Federal warships in Hampton Roads.
members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/cumberland_frigate.html   (299 words)

  
 History from the River Bottom: The Archaeology and Artifacts of USS Cumberland and CSS Florida
USS Cumberland was a full ship-rigged sailing sloop built at the Boston Navy Yard and launched in 1842.
Cumberland was later assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron stationed in Hampton Roads and proclaimed the blockade in Virginia and North Carolina from its decks.
Cumberland became an archaeological site the moment she sank to a watery grave, in that the federal government almost immediately solicited work from salvage companies to secure valuable items from the shipwreck.
www.hnsa.org /conf2004/papers/judge.htm   (3363 words)

  
 USS Cumberland (1842) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy.
Cumberland made her second cruise to the Mediterranean from 1849 to 1851, returning as flagship of the squadron there from 1852 to 1855.
From 1857 to 1859 she cruised on the coast of Africa as flagship of the African Squadron patrolling for the suppression of the slave trade, then became flagship of the Home Squadron in 1860.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Cumberland_(1842)   (310 words)

  
 The Starfleet Museum - Wasp Class
The Cumberland would survive this disaster with the primary hull successfully detaching and clearing the destruction.
The increased safety of the WASP class was clearly demonstrated when the USS CUMBERLAND (NCC-229) suffered a catastrophic warp core containment breach in 2177 while on a survey mission in sector 539.
After being decommissioned in 2217, USS KEARSARGE was restored to her original three-nacelle configuration and is now on display at the Starfleet Museum, Sol.
www.starfleet-museum.org /wasp.htm   (2123 words)

  
 CHRONOLOGY OF CIVIL WAR NAVAL EVENTS 1862   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
USS Monitor, Lieutenant J. Worden, engaged CSS Virginia, Lieutenant C. ap R. Jones, in the historic first battle of ironclads.
USS Kensington and Rachel Seaman and mortar schooner Henry James bombarded Sabine City, Texas, and forced Confederate troops to withdraw from the city.
USS Cairo, Lieutenant Commander T. Selfridge, was sunk in the Yazoo River, the first ship to be destroyed by a Confederate torpedo.
www.civilwarinteractive.com /CWPediaNavyChron1862.htm   (652 words)

  
 USN Ships--USS Cumberland (1843-1862)
CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and USS Congress, 8 March 1862.
Chaplain John L. Lenhart, USN (1805-1862), Chaplain of USS Cumberland, who was killed in this battle.
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)

  
 USS Cumberland Sound (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cumberland Sound (AV-17) was launched 11 January 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Wash.; sponsored by Mrs.
Cumberland Sound was underway to make her contribution to winning the war in the Pacific on 28 October 1944 bound for Pearl Harbor carrying six planes, passengers, and cargo.
Cumberland Sound rendezvoused with elements of the 3d Fleet at Okinawa 18 August and sailed to Tokyo Bay, arriving 28 August to set up a seadrome.
www.navyhistory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Tender/CumberlandSound.html   (254 words)

  
 Frequently Referenced Vessels | Bibliographies | Resources | Monitor Center
On March 8, 1862, while the Cumberland was on duty in Hampton Roads, she was rammed and sunk by the Virginia.
Launched in the fall of 1860 as a civilian paddle wheel steamer, this vessel was purchased, renamed, and commissioned by the U.S. Navy as a supply ship under the command of Commander Stephen D. Trenchard less than a year later.
During her sea trials on March 8 the Virginia rammed and sank the Cumberland and set the Congress afire in Hampton Roads.
www.monitorcenter.org /resources/bibliographies/reffvessels   (1225 words)

  
 Constitution Refit Class Variant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cumberland was chosen to be the first ship to be upgraded over the 2269-2274 refit.
Once the work on the Cumberland was completed, the USS Jefferson was scheduled to under go refit, followed by the other two ships.
USS Cumberland is selected to be the first ship to receive the new refit.
www.bravofleet.net /avalon/starship-constitutionrefitvariant.htm   (614 words)

  
 "Cheesebox on a Raft" Union Ironclad USS Monitor by Charles Landrum (Battle Axe 1/144)
To many the radical USS Monitor was going to be the savior that would turn the tide of misfortune suffered by the Federal Government to that point.
She came into being to defeat the monster ironclad the Confederacy was building to lift the Union naval blockade of it’s waters; it was to be a contest of David versus Goliath.
USS Congress was still burning and only the masts of the USS Cumberland remained above water, when Virginia came out for round two.
hsfeatures.com /ussmonitorcl_1.htm   (3911 words)

  
 National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC
USS Monitor/CSS Virginia [aka USS Merrimack] After departing Union forces burned the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk in April 1861, yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into the ironclad CSS Virginia.
USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilson's trip to France in 1918, she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 8:00 am on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States; she was laid down January 6, 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard.
www.naqt.com /YouGottaKnow/american-warships.html   (969 words)

  
 Jamestown History
The first Jamestown was a sloop of war launched in 1844 by the Navy Yard, Gosport, VA. Leaving Hampton Roads on June 25, 1845, she was the flagship of Commodore Charles W Skinner.
The USS Jamestown was powered by a second generation warp drive with a top speed of warp 5.
After the war ended, the USS Jamestown continued to serve the fleet well until she was decommissioned on June 15, 2195.
www.angelfire.com /va/ussjamestown/history.html   (2950 words)

  
 CSS Virginia model
The CSS Virginia was constructed from the hull of the frigate USS Merrimack, which burned and sank at Portsmouth, Virgina, upon the evacuation of Union forces from that area in 1861.
She was constructed of wood with layers of sheet iron and had 10 guns, as well as a crew of 320 officers and men.
In March 1862, at the Battle of Hampton Roads, the Virginia dispatched the USS Cumberland by ramming and destroyed the USS Congress by fire before engaging the USS Monitor.
www.civilwar.si.edu /navies_cssvirginia.html   (107 words)

  
 USS Cumberland
One of the Cumberland's cannon is mounted in Oak Hill Cemetery, South Avenue, Battle Creek, Michigan (Calhoun Co.).
In US Navy, was on board the "Cumberland," witnessed the battle of the "Merrimack" and "Monitor." [so apparently not on board at the time] Re-enlisted private, Co. H., 9th Reg’t.
Born in Galway, Ireland, immigrated to the U.S in 1846 and resided in Boston.
cssvirginia.org /vacsn3/crew/cumber   (1534 words)

  
 A Chronological History
December 26, 1861: U.S. Marines from the sloop USS Dale skirmished with Confederate troops at the mouth of the South Edisto River, SC.
The 18-man Marine guard of the USS Wachusett took charge of the captured Confederate iron-clad steamer Virginia to sail her from Jajores Island, Yucatan, Mexico, to Key West, Florida, for disposal.
The U.S. Marines on the USS Lackawanna were able to furnish substantial protection to their ship during its fight with the Tennessee by effective delivery of small-arms fire through the gun ports of the enemy vessel.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/4198/history.htm   (5791 words)

  
 The Battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the point that the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard.
Like the CSS Virginia, the USS Monitor was expected to sink; it was referred to as "Ericsson's Folly" (Johnson).
She proceeded to sink the USS Cumberland and then ran the USS Congress aground.
www.rpi.edu /~fiscap/history_files/monitor.htm   (1117 words)

  
 eHistory at OSU | eReviews
Captain T. Selfridge was naval officer on the USS Cumberland at Hampton Roads in March 1862 in charge of the forward ten-inch gun.
Bravely the decimated gun crews on the Cumberland fought on, but damage from the Virginia's cannon had killed the Union warship and she sank with great loss of life.
His next command was the USS Conestoga, which sank when Selfridge collided with a Confederate vessel two years to the day after the Cumberland sinking.
ehistory.osu.edu /osu/reviews/ereviewview.cfm?id=17   (384 words)

  
 Ironclad
Union sailors aboard the Cumberland stared in astonishment as cannonballs, which should have knocked gaping holes in the Virginia, ricocheted harmlessly off her slanted casemate.
She had rammed and destroyed the 24-gun USS Cumberland and had sunk the 50-gun USS Congress.
Over $5.9 million is being used to restore and protect the ironclad USS Cairo on display in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and $10 million has been allocated for a facility to house the ironclad CSS Jackson on display in Columbus, Georgia.
www.usvetdsp.com /ironclad.htm   (4964 words)

  
 Civil War Naval Actions -- CSS Virginia destroys USS Cumberland and USS Congress
At mid-day on 8 March 1862, CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack, and persistently mid-identified by that name or as "Merrimac") steamed down the Elizabeth River from Norfolk and entered Hampton Roads.
Oil painting by Edward Moran (1829-1901), depicting CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack) ramming USS Cumberland in the teeth of a broadside from the wooden warship.
USS Congress and the bow of a Confederate gunboat are shown at right.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/civilwar/n-at-cst/hr-james/8mar62.htm   (1175 words)

  
 USS Cumberland (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Cumberland, after the Cumberland River.
The first Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate launched in 1842 and sunk by the CSS Virginia in 1862.
The second Cumberland (AO-153) was a fleet oiler.
uss-cumberland.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (70 words)

  
 USNews.com: Nation & World: Lt. Thomas O. Selfridge Jr. on the sinking of the USS Cumberland
It was a battle of wood versus iron, the USS Cumberland versus the CSS Virginia, in what would become a defining battle in naval history.
Before dark, the USS Cumberland was sunk, the USS Minnesota had been grounded, and the USS Congress surrendered only to be burned.
Thomas O. Selfridge Jr., a commander who was onboard the Cumberland during the attack, wrote his recollection of the battle 23 years later with piercingly vivid details of his brave fellow shipmates.
www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/060716/16selfridge_eye.htm?s_cid=rss:site1   (475 words)

  
 VPNAVY - VP-22 History Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
"...Cumberland Sound (the Seaplane Tender VP-22 was assigned 1944-1945)...One story my father loves to tell was, "Our crew was crew 13, the plane was Y-13, when another squadron lost ther crew 13 the CO asked if we wanted to change crew numbers.
From 22 January 1945 to 22 June 1945 VP-42 was based aboard the USS CUMBERLAND SOUND (AV-17) at Ulithi, conducting ASW operations against the Japanese-held Western Caroline Islands.
After a short period of operations aboard the USS Norton Sound at Chimu Wan Bay, Okinawa, the squadron moved to Sasebo, in Japan aboard the USS Pine Island.
www.vpnavy.com /vp22_1944.html   (519 words)

  
 DOCUMENTING THE USS MONITOR
The fascination that the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, or USS Merrimack depending on your preference, holds for historians, students of history, and the general public is evidenced by the tremendous amount of research materials available on these vessels.
Notable in these accounts is the respect that the Confederate sailors show to the captain of the USS Cumberland and to John Worden, captain of the Monitor and their admiration of these officers’ bravery.
Ernest W. Peterkin, Drawings of the USS Monitor: a catalog and technical analysis, (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service; Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1985); William De Rohan Papers at The Library of The Mariners' Museum.
www.battleshipnc.com /6mhc/sberg.htm   (2629 words)

  
 USS Ward DD-139 / APD-16 Ship's History
Originally the USS Chew (Seen HERE moored with the WARD in July of that year) was slated for duty but a mechanical difficulty forced her to return to base and the WARD was sent out in her place.
The Antares was steaming in from Palmyra to meet the tug USS Keosanqua to transfer her tow to her.
He commanded the USS Cumberland during the Mexican War, which was then serving as Commodore Perry's flagship.
www.specwarnet.net /USSWard/history.htm   (14494 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/cumberlandsound
USS Cumberland Sound (AV-17), 1944-1962 USS Cumberland Sound, a 8000-ton Kenneth Whiting class seaplane tender, was built at Tacoma, Washington.
Commissioned in August 1944, she served in the Pacific during the remainder of World War II and was present in Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945.
She was decommissioned in May 1947 and remained in the Pacific reserve fleet until sold in April 1962.
www.myspace.com /cumberlandsound   (194 words)

  
 USS Susquehanna
Tattnall, USS Bienville, USS Pembina, USS Seneca, USS Ottawa, USS Unadilla, USS Pawnee, USS Mohican, USS Isaac Smith, USS Curlew, USS Vandalia, USS Penguin, USS Pocahontas, USS Seminole, Fort Beauregard, USS R.B. Forbes and "Rebel Camp".
USS Susquehanna (1850-1883) is at the extreme left.
A drawing of the figurehead and cutwater carving of the USS Susquehanna (from the National Archives)
cssvirginia.org /vacsn3/crew/susque   (1118 words)

  
 History: Civil War - Monitor vs. Merrimack
The battle on March 9, 1862, between the USS Monitor and the CSS Merrimack, officially the CSS Virginia, is one of the most revolutionary naval battles in world history.
The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate throughout most of its existence, up until the Union Navy abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yard.
The USS Minnesota was run aground on one of the shores.
www.cyberessays.com /History/140.htm   (1197 words)

  
 CONFEDERATE STATE IRONCLAD SHIPS
    The Virginia's captain, Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan, singled out the 24-gun USS Cumberland for the ironclad's first attack.   He opened fire on the Cumberland from less than a mile.  Firing grew more intense as he maneuvered the Virginia on a course set to ram the Cumberland.
    Union sailors aboard the Cumberland stared in astonishment as cannonballs, which should have knocked gaping holes in the Virginia, ricocheted harmlessly off her slanted casement.    Astonishment quickly turned to terror as the Cumberland's crew realized that the Confederate ironclad was about to ram them, and there was nothing they could do.
    By the end of the day, the Confederate ironclad had reeked havoc on the blockade's.  She had rammed and destroyed the 24-gun USS Cumberland and had sunk the 50-gun USS Congress.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Park/2207/css.htm   (778 words)

  
 Peninsula Campaign Sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The USS Minnesota was run aground off Salter’s Creek, and the two ironclads, USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, fought each other to a standstill in this section of Hampton Roads.
Congress and Cumberland Overlook: Scene of the March 8, 1862, sinking of the USS Cumberland and USS Congress by the ironclad ram, CSS Virginia.
The fort was captured and partially destroyed on May 17, 1862, by the Union vessels USS Susquehanna, USS Minnesota, and the ironclad USS Galena.
www.peninsulacampaign.org /sites.shtml   (1097 words)

  
 NMCP celebrates Memorial day
During his remarks at the Memorial Day ceremony, he emphasized that his travels had brought him a renewed sense of  the freedoms we enjoy, and especially, the gratitude he felt for those who had given their lives so we might preserve the future of the greatest nation on Earth.
  "We also mourn the loss of 17 shipmates from the USS Cole and the loss of Congressman Sisiski, all who gave so much in the service to our country for their belief that freedom, above all else, is something worth defending and preserving." Adams said.
  A special memorial stands as tribute to the men who lost their lives aboard USS Cumberland and USS Congress which were sunk during a Hampton Roads battle with the CSS Virginia during the first day of the iron clad's maiden voyage.
www-nmcp.med.navy.mil /pao/Courier/memorialday.asp   (477 words)

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