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	USS Cumberland (1842) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy.
		She was launched 24 May 1842 by Boston Navy Yard.
		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) (316 words)

	Rhode Island
		Rhode Island (pronounced "Roe Die-land" by natives) is part of the New England region, and was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
		USS Rhode Island was named in honor of this state.
		Rhode Island was the site of the Dorr Rebellion[?] of 1842 in which Thomas Dorr[?] drafted a liberal constitution which was passed by popular referendum but which was opposed by the sitting governor Samuel Ward King[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/RI.html (375 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)

	American Warships of the Age of Sail
		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.
		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)

	Frequently Referenced Vessels \| Bibliographies \| Resources \| Monitor Center
		In 1842, the sloop-of-war was launched at the Boston Navy Yard.
		On March 8, 1862, while the Cumberland was on duty in Hampton Roads, she was rammed and sunk by the Virginia.
		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)

	Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon Branch
		From 1838 to 1842 he was the Governor of the Naval Asylum, a hospitial in Philadelphia.
		USS BOSTON's role off the coast of South America was probably to observe the movements of the foreign fleets and to be prepared to offer assistance to the embassy and American citizens ashore, as required.
		The Cumberland sailed from Havanna on the 8th instant, and just before her departure a rumor was circulated that an insurrection had taken place in Puerto Rico, and that the Government officers in that place had sent to Havana for assistance.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon_Branch.html (19667 words)

	Jimmy the Cork : Amanda Corcoran2/28/05Period 3AP US Hist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1842 he was the architect of the Webster-Ashburton Affair which resolved the Caroline Affair and also established the definitive Eastern border between the United States and Canada and sealed the final peace between the United States and Britain.
		The issue of legal tenders, the greatest financial blunder of the war, was made contrary to his wishes, although he did not, as he perhaps ought to have done, push his opposition to the point of resigning.
		Even so, her captain attacked the USS Minnesota, which had run aground on a sandbank trying to escape the Virginia.
	www.greatestjournal.com /users/bamf_girl143/36789.html (4417 words)

	Vermont Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cumberland, a frigate, was launched 24 May 1842 by Boston Navy Yard, Her first commanding officer was Captain S. Breese, and her first service was as flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron from 1843 to 1845 where she had among her officers men like Foote and Dahlgren.
		The first Cumberland made her second cruise to the Mediterranean from 1849 to 1851, returning as flagship of the squadron there from 1852 to 1855.
		She served as one of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron until 8 March 1862 when she was rammed and sunk in an engagement with the Confederate ironclad Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) at Newport News, Va.
	vermontcivilwar.org /units/navy/ships/cumberland.php (297 words)

	Bringing Richard Somers Home
		He was the captain of the U.S.S. Intrepid when it exploded in Tripoli harbor on September 4, 1804, during the battle of Tripoli, which inspired the lines in the U.S. Marine corps hymn, “….from the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli.”
		Buried by American prisoners from the captured frigate USS Philadelphia, Somers, two other officers – Lt. Henry Wadsworth (Uncle of Longfellow), Charles Israel, and ten sailors and marines were laid to rest a few hundred yards east of the old Bashaw’s castle, now a museum.
		Instead, the remains of Lt. Richard Somers and the 12 man crew of the USS Intrepid are buried in a small park near Tripoli harbor where they died on September 4, 1804.
	www.richardsomers.org /rs_pages/rs_news.html (2951 words)

	MONITOR by James Tertius deKay
		Cumberland fired three ineffective broadsides of 180 lb shot from her new rifled Dahlgrens against the relentless on coming Virginia causing no more damage than setting fire to Merrimac’s sheathing of pig fat and dismounting the port hot shot cannon.
		The USS Merrimack was built in 1856, one of four State of the Art Capital Ships, larger than the Cumberland and Congress.
		The USS Monitor incorporated many new engineering designs including an air blower ventilation system, a flush toilet, and over forty original patents.
	www.beerbritain.com /monitor_by_james_tertius_dekay.htm (3187 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/index.htm (1118 words)

	USS LUZON ARG 2 - US Navy - Korean War Project
		The Luzon had some history from WWII, Korea and till she was struck from the roles in Sept of 61 and sold to the Japanese for scrape on 26 Aug 1974.
		She is now back in the states and call a Toyota.....I was the Educational Yeoman on board her from 12 September 1950 to 17 March 1952.
		USS LUZON AJ?G-2 Type: EC2-S@ I Action Taken 8126174 Sales Price: $555,625.50 Successful Bidder: Ssangyong Trading Co., Ltd. c/o Nissho-lwal American Corporation, 80 Pine Street, New York NY 10005 Prepared by: Fleet Disposal Branch Division of Reserve Fleet Maritime Administration, 26 August 1974 Putting the Luzon's home port together I enjoyed very much.
	www.koreanwar.org /html/units/navy/uss_luzon.htm?set=25 (1608 words)

	Usn Veterans Burial Sites
		Walker Armington, Steward, USS Monongahela, was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island and died on March 14, 1937, at Worcester, Massachusetts.
		John Mills Browne, Surgeon, USS Kearsarge was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and appointed Assistant Surgeon in the navy on March 26, 1853, aged 29.
		Thomas Addison Knowlton, USS Wabash, was born in Rockport, Massachusetts, and died at the age of 102, at Ashland, Massachusetts, on February 14, 1940.
	www.tfoenander.com /burials.html (16953 words)

	Coal Camps III--Wyoming Tales and Trails
		Today, all that is left are the remains of the Ziller Ranch, a saloon in Cumberland Gap, and the Cumberland Cemetery to the north of where Cumberland No.
		The presence of coal in the Cumberland area was known as early as 1843 when it was discovered on Brevet Captain John C. Fremont's second expedition (1843-1844).
		Many of the miners in Cumberland - Diamondville - Kemmerer area were from Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
	www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /cumberland.html (2424 words)

	Articles \| Bibliographies \| Resources \| Monitor Center
		William Evelyn Cameron (1842-1927), future newspaper editor and governor of Virginia, was a private in Company A, 12th Virginia Infantry when he saw the Virginia sink the Cumberland and Congress.
		He was later an employee of Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, and helped to build the USS Virginia (battleship No. 13).
		The ironclad covered the retreat of one wounded man. Supposedly a paymaster and three midshipmen were among the captured.
	www.monitorcenter.org /resources/bibliographies/articles/c.php (2443 words)

	Boston's Naval Treasures
		The party is for the frigate USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world.
		She was launched in Boston on 21 October 1797, and now makes her home at the former Navy yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts, just across the mouth of the Charles River from the spot where she first slipped down the ways.
		The frigate Cumberland, launched in 1842 and originally mounting 50 guns, was destroyed by the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia in an encounter that forever changed the world's navies.
	www.military.com /forums/0,15240,95859,00.html (3287 words)

	CDiscovering Charles Wilkes
		Between 1835 and 1842 William invested in the gold-mining ventures with a number of different partners, including another New York banker, southern partners, and an Italian count.
		After William's death in 1842, the Renwicks asked Charles Wilkes to run the mining operations for the Maxwell, the McComb (also called the Charlotte and/or the St. Catherine), the Catawba, and the Capps mines.
		On March 8, 1862 the re-floated and iron-clad Merrimack, renamed CSS Virginia, emerged from Norfolk to sink the USS Cumberland, and explode the USS Congress.
	www.hnsa.org /conf2004/papers/bbrose.htm (3012 words)

	Park Dates
		September 12 1943: U.S.S. Cassin Young was launched at the Boston Navy Yard; the destroyer saw Pacific action during World War II and remained in service until 1960.
		George H. Thomas's Army of the Cumberland assaulted Confederate rifle pits at the base of Missionary Ridge east of Chattanooga, then scaled the heights in one of the great charges of the Civil War.
		The USS Arizona, one of 21 vessels sunk or damaged in the attack, suffered the greatest loss of life in American naval history with 1,177 sailors and marines killed.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/hisnps/NPSHistory/parkdate.htm (14640 words)

	Struss-Brumby
		She was born December 05, 1774 in Statesburg, South Carolina, and died August 19, 1842 in Pickensville, Pickens County, Alabama.
		He became a very successful surveyor in America and is largely responsible as the head surveyor for the Port of Charleston, South Carolina.
		Occupation #3: 1842, Planter on the Yazoo River Plantation in Mississippi
	www.austinoldies.com /struss_brumby.htm (6374 words)

	Teaching Children Social Studies with Timelines - Early 19th century USA timeline from Inquiry Unlimited practitioner ...
		At the Battle of Thames * in western Ontario, William Henry Harrison defeated the remaining British and Indian forces, killing Tecumseh * in the fighting.
		USS Constitution * destroyed Guerriere * - August 19
		In the summer of 1813 , during the Creek War, the Creeks attacked Fort Mims in Alabama.
	inquiryunlimited.org /timelines/hist1800.html (1426 words)

	Naval History Magazine: Boston's Naval Treasures, TOM HUNTINGTON
		With an intertwined past that dates back more than 200 years, the USS Constitution and the Charlestown Navy Yard offer Boston-area visitors a chance to step aboard a storied U.S. sailing warship and explore the yard where she, as well as hundreds of other vessels, was serviced.
		In her heyday the Constitution shipped a crew of about 450 men; today her complement numbers around 50, both men and women, who have one foot in the Navy's high-tech present and another in the era before the reincarnated Merrimack closed the door on the days of wooden ships and iron men.
		The USS Constitution is a commissioned warship, but she is open to the public.
	www.usni.org /navalhistory/articles06/NHHuntingtonApr.html (4384 words)

	USS Monitor Muster Roll, February-December, 1862.
		James Fenwick, born Scotland; enlisted July 22, 1861, aged 23, at Boston, Massachusetts, for 2 years; received from the USS Sabine; rated as seaman and quarter gunner; involved in the engagement at Hampton Roads, against the CSS Virginia; drowned in the sinking of the ironclad, December 31, 1862.
		Charles H. Scott, seaman; joined the USS Monitor after the engagement at Hampton Roads, March, 1862; Butts incorrectly shows him as having drowned in the sinking of the ironclad, December 31, 1862.
		Robert Williams, enlisted February 20, 1862, aged 30, at New York, for 3 years; received from the USS North Carolina, at New York; rated as first class fireman; involved in the engagement at Hampton Roads, against the CSS Virginia; drowned in the sinking of the ironclad, December 31, 1862.
	www.tfoenander.com /ussmonitor.htm (2434 words)

	USS_Cumberland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		USS Cumberland (1842), a 50-gun sailing frigate launched in 1842 and sunk by the CSS Virginia in 1862 USS Cumberland (IX-8), a steel-hulled sailing bark that served as a training ship, a station ship, and a receiving ship through the first half of the 20th century USS Cumberland (AO-153), a fleet oiler
		The USS Cumberland Sound (AV-17) was a seaplane tender.
		This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.
	tax-relief.rubylq2.com /USS_Cumberland (156 words)

	US Civil War Veterans of the Dunlop
		At 2 am the iron battery USS Monitor, Commander John Worden, which had arrived the previous evening from Hampton Roads, cane alongside and reported for duty, and then all on board felt that we had a friend that would stand by us in our hour of trial.
		She returned my fire with her rifled bow gun with a shell that passed through the chief engineer’s stateroom, amidships, and burst in the boatswains room, tearing all four rooms into one with its passage, exploding two charges of powder, which set the ship on fire.
		This time I concentrated upon her an incessant fire from my gun deck, spar deck, and forecastle pivot guns, and was informed by my marine officer, who was stationed on the poop deck, that at least fifty solid shot struck the Merrimack on her slanting ironclad side without any apparent effect.
	www.clandunlop.com /civilwar.html (4289 words)

	History & Genealogy - Manuscripts - Guide to Manuscripts Materials Pt. B
		He included names of steamboats on the Cumberland and Mississippi, items about the cargo, places where the boats stopped and comments about his fellow passengers.
		Shields was killed at the Battle of Fishing Creek, Kentucky and wrote in considerable detail of a sharp engagement with Federal forces near Cumberland Ford, Kentucky.
		Primarily the letters were written home from boot camp, Naval Radar School, and from onboard the USS Cetus during the years 1942-1945.
	www.state.tn.us /tsla/history/manuscripts/mguideb.htm (10604 words)

	Cumberland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A river which crosses Kentucky and Tennessee to join the Ohio.
		Cumberland, a frigate, was launched 24 May 1842 by Boston Navy Yard.
		Towed out of the yard she escaped destruction when other ships there were scuttled and burned by Union forces 20 April 1861 to prevent their capture by the Confederates.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/frigates/cumberla.htm (237 words)

	Annapolis
		On September 13, 1842, the American Brig Somers set sail from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on one of the most significant cruises in American naval history.
		Naval support to midshipmen began in 1851, six years after the founding of the U.S. Naval Academy, when the USS PREBLE arrived at what was then, Fort Severn, for duty as the first training ship.
		In 1943, 123 additional acres of land were purchased to improve undesirable living conditions for the 800 men living aboard the USS REINA MERCEDES and USS CUMBERLAND, part of the Naval Barracks Command responsible for the enlisted men assigned to the Naval Academy.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/annapolis.htm (1431 words)

	Bacon, John Lyddall - Byrd, Samuel Master Hankins: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In it she describes, in part, her social life in Richmond during the war, her work at the Confederate Treasury Department and at the Adjutant General's Office, the evacuation fire, and the subsequent Union occupation of the city (section 132).
		Also included is a description of her father’s, John Luke Porter’s (1813–1893), career in shipbuilding and, in particular, his involvement in refurbishing the U.S.S. “Merrimack” into the ironclad “Virginia” for the Confederate States Navy.
		A typed transcript of the recollections of James Jackson Broaddus (1865–1950) of Louisa County.
	www.vahistorical.org /cwg/b.htm (5231 words)

	BIBLIOGRAPHY-CSS Virginia Home Page
		A bibliography of the Battle of Hampton Roads can be found at the MIL-HIST site, and in the US Army's bibliograhy..
		Watts published a bibliography on the USS Monitor.
		Official report of the battle between the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly U.S.S. Merrimack) and the U.S.S. Monitor on March 9, 1892 [i.e.
	members.aol.com /vacsn/base/biblio.htm (4942 words)

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