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	USS Kearsarge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Kearsarge has been the name of four commissioned ships of the United States Navy (and another ship that was renamed during construction).
		The third USS Kearsarge (CV-33), a Ticonderoga-class aircraft carrier, served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
		The fourth USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, was commissioned in 1993 and remains Active in service as of 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Kearsarge (199 words)

	USS Kearsarge (1861) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kearsarge rescued the majority of Alabama's survivors; but Semmes and 41 others were picked up by British yacht Deerhound and escaped in her to (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
		The battle between Kearsarge and Alabama is honored by the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy by a (additional info and facts about battle star) battle star on the Civil War (additional info and facts about campaign streamer) campaign streamer.
		Kearsarge steamed along the French coast in an unsuccessful search for (additional info and facts about CSS Florida) CSS Florida, thence proceeded to the Caribbean before turning northward for (additional info and facts about Boston, Massachusetts) Boston, Massachusetts, where she decommissioned on 26 November 1864 for repairs.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_kearsarge_(1861)2.htm (1030 words)

	USS Kearsarge (1861) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire.
		Kearsarge rescued the majority of Alabama's survivors; but Semmes and 41 others were picked up by British yacht Deerhound and escaped in her to England.
		Kearsarge sailed along the French coast in an unsuccessful search for CSS Florida, thence proceeded to the Caribbean before turning northward for Boston, Massachusetts, where she decommissioned on November 26, 1864 for repairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Kearsarge_(1861) (1034 words)

	USS Kearsarge
		Kearsarge departed Portsmouth 5 February 1862 for the coast of Spain thence sailed to Gibraltar to join the blockade of Confederate raider Sumter, forcing her abandonment in December.
		Kearsarge, on the other hand, had been given added protection by chain cable triced in tiers along her sides abreast vital spaces One hour after she fired her first salvo, A1abama had been reduced to a sinking wreck.
		Kearsarge recommissioned 8 December 1873 and departed 4 March 1874 for Yokohama, Japan, arriving 11 May. She cruised on Asiatic Station for 3 years, protecting American citizens and commerce in China, Japan, and the Philippines.
	www.multied.com /Navy/CWNavy/kearsarge.html (712 words)

	History of Ships named USS Kearsarge
		USS KEARSARGE became the flagship of the North Atlantic Fleet cruising down the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean.
		USS KEARSARGE will carry a mix of 30 Marine helicopters and jet attack Harriers on her flight deck, and 800 members of a Marine expeditionary unit's air-ground team of 2,000 Marines.
		The original USS KEARSARGE was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1861 from red oak from this mountain.
	www.warner.nh.us /ships.htm (3515 words)

	Product 3
		The second Kearsarge, named by act of Congress to commemorate the famed steam sloop-of-war, was launched 24 March 1898 by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Virginia; sponsored by Mrs.
		Kearsarge was commissioned 20 February 1900 with Captain William M. Folger in command.
		Kearsarge became flagship of the North Atlantic Station, cruising down the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean.
	www.greatwhitefleet.info /USS_Kearsarge.html (497 words)

	The U.S.S. Kearsarge vs. the C.S.S. Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kearsarge - or Kearsage as she was sometimes refered to - was chosen, taking the name from a New Hampshire mountain.
		Rather than send the Kearsarge to aid with the blockade of Confederate ports, she was sent to European water to hunt for Confederate commerce raiders.
		While the Kearsarge continued to patrol European waters for Confederate commerce raiders, the Confederacy's chief naval agent in Europe, James Bulloch was purchasing a navy in England, in defiance of that country's neutrality laws.
	www.hampton.lib.nh.us /hampton/history/ships/usskearsarge.htm (2069 words)

	USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)
		USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), the third Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, was the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named (the fourth actually commissioned) in honor of the sloop Kearsarge, of American Civil War fame.
		Kearsarge is fully capable of amphibious assault, advance force and special purpose operations, as well as non-combatant evacuation and other humanitarian missions.
		Additionally, Kearsarge is fully equipped with state of the art command and control (C4I) systems for flagship command duty, and her medical facilities are second in capability only to the Navy's hospital ships, USNS Comfort and Mercy.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_kearsarge__lhd_3_.html (639 words)

	USS Kearsarge biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The sloop of war USS Kearsarge fought one of the American Civil War's most memorable naval actions.
		The aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CV-33) served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
		USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship commissioned in 1993.
	www.biography.ms /USS_Kearsarge.html (103 words)

	JAG Hit TV Show: Cmdr. Harmon Rabb and Lt. Col. Sarah MacKenzie investigate, prosecute, and defend members of the Navy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In November of 1944, USS Ellyson was reclassified as DMS 19, a high-speed minesweeper.
		The original USS Thomas Jefferson was a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN 618), commisioned in January of 1963 and finally decommisioned in January of 1985.
		The first USS Somers was a schooner that fought under Commodore Ferry on Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and took part in the capture of the British Squadron on 10 September 1813.
	www.jagarchive.com /Miscellaneous/VesselsOfJAG.htm (3045 words)

	USS Kearsarge (1861) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire (subsequent ships were named Kearsarge in honor of this one, not for the mountain).
		Kearsarge steamed along the French coast in an unsuccessful search for CSS Florida, thence proceeded to the Caribbean before turning northward for Boston, Massachusetts, where she decommissioned on 26 November 1864 for repairs.
		Kearsarge recommisioned 16 January 1868 and sailed 12 February to serve in the South Pacific operating out of Valparaiso, Chile.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/USS-Kearsarge-(1861).htm (1004 words)

	Kearsarge Visit
		The steam and sail Sloop of War Kearsarge was built in Portsmouth, NH in 1861 from wood that came from Mt.
		There was also a great desire to continue and strengthen the ties between the USS Kearsarge and the Town of Warner, New Hampshire.
		A presentation of a piece of well deck that had been recently removed from the current USS Kearsarge during overhaul was made to the Historical Society.
	www.warner.nh.us /usskvisit01.htm (1274 words)

	USN Ships--USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)
		USS Kearsarge, a 1550-ton Mohican class steam sloop of war, was built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, under the 1861 Civil War emergency shipbuilding program.
		In June 1864, while under the command of Captain John Winslow, Kearsarge found CSS Alabama at Cherbourg, France, where she had gone for repairs after a devastating cruise at the expense of the United States' merchant marine.
		Florida, Kearsarge went to the Caribbean, then to Boston, where she received repairs before returning to Europe in April 1865 to try to intercept the ironclad CSS Stonewall.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-k/kearsarg.htm (909 words)

	USS Kearsarge - Memory Alpha
		The USS Kearsarge (NCC-57566) was a Challenger-class Federation starship in service in the 24th century.
		In 2370, it was forced to delay a rendezvous with the USS Enterprise-D.
		This ship was named for the various United States warships named USS Kearsarge, beginning with a steam sloop-of-war during the American Civil War.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/USS_Kearsarge (121 words)

	KEARSARGE History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		USS KEARSARGE (LHD 3) is the fourth ship in the history of the U.S. Navy named for Kearsarge Mountain in New Hampshire.
		USS KEARSARGE and her sister ships are the first ships specifically designed to accommodate Air Cushion Landing Craft (LCAC) for fast troop movement over the beach and Harrier II (AV-8B) V/STOL (Vertical/Short Take Off and Landing) jets, which provide close-in air support for the assault force.
		USS KEARSARGE joined the fleet October 16, 1993 during commissioning ceremonies in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and is home ported in Norfolk, Virginia.
	www.kearsarge.navy.mil /History.htm (1049 words)

	USS Kearsarge (BB-5, AB-1, later Crane Ship 1)
		USS Kearsarge and her sister USS Kentucky were designed under the restriction that draft could not exceed 23 feet, somewhat less than that of preceding classes, to allow them to better operate in coastal waters.
		Kearsarge sailed around the World with the Great White Fleet, and was inactive from 1909 to 1914, but was modified in 1912 with cage masts and new boilers.
		Designated USS Kearsarge AB-1, she was recommissioned in 1922 into a valuable role that she would serve in, with distinction, for the next 35 years.
	www.bobhenneman.info /kearsrg.htm (787 words)

	DD 982 Nicholson
		The USS Nicholson was deployed, in early 1994, with the USS Saratoga (CV-60), as part of Task Force 60, in the Arabian Gulf, Mediterranean and the Adriatic in support of operations "Deny Flight," "Provide Promise" and "Sharp Guard".
		The USS Nicholson deployed with the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Battle Group, with Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW 3) embarked, for a scheduled six-month deployment on November 6, 1998, and to relieve the USS Eisenhower Battle Group in Operation Southern Watch.
		USS Nicholson (DD 982) is the fourth Navy ship to be named for the five members of the Nicholson family renowned in American naval history.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-982.htm (1487 words)

	USS KEARSARGE (BB-5) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		KEARSARGE decommissioned in the Philadelphia Navy Yard 4 September 1909 for modernization.
		KEARSARGE continued as engineering training ship until 29 May 1919 when she embarked Naval Academy Midshipmen for training in the west Indies.
		The midshipmen were debarked at Annapolis 29 August and KEARSARGE proceeded to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where she decommissioned 10 May 1920 for conversion to a crane ship and a new career.
	www.combie.net /webharbor/museum/bb-5-1.html (1041 words)

	On Roncador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Above, USS Kearsarge attacks the CSS Alabama in a famed naval engagement off Cherbourg, France during the War Between the States.
		Kearsarge sank on Roncador Reef on Feb, 2, 1894.
		She was renowned for sinking the CSS Alabama in an 1864 Civil War battle fought in the English Channel, outside the French port of Cherbourg.
	www.davefurlong.com /GILBERT/on_roncador.htm (212 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Its first assignment commenced in November 1867 on the screw steamer USS CHIMO, whose name had been changed to USS Piscataqua by the time number 887 was off-loaded at New York Navy Yard in December 1870.
		USS WILLIAM G. Designed by, and named for, John A. Dahlgren, 423 3.4-inch rifled boat howitzers were produced from 1861 to 1865 at Washington Navy Yard.
		Number 125 was lost on USS CONGRESS when she burned and sank from damage inflicted by the ironclad CSS VIRGINIA in Hampton Roads on March 8, 1862.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/CWG.HTM (2748 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.
		July 16, 1863 - The Marine detachment of the sloop USS Wyoming took part in the action when the Wyoming was fired upon by shore batteries and was attacked by ships of the Prince of Magato in the Straits of Shimonoseki, Japan.
		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)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - USS Kearsarge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In June 1864, Kearsarge was at Flushing, Holland, under Captain John A. Winslow, when word arrived that the notorious Confederate raider had put into Cherbourg on June 11.
		After an unsuccessful effort to locate CSS Florida, Kearsarge proceeded to the Caribbean and from there to Boston where she was decommissioned for repairs.
		Kearsarge continued in service for another thirty years, seeing service in virtually every sphere of U.S. interest around the world: the Mediterranean, South America, the Pacific, and the China Station.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_051900_usskearsarge.htm (383 words)

	CVN 65 Enterprise Strike Group
		As of mid-November 2003 the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) Carrier Strike Group (CSG), the Navy’s only deployed CSG, was taking charge of a range of military operations covering a geographical region larger than the United States from its station in the North Arabian Sea.
		USS Enterprise entered the waters of the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) Feb. 5, 2004 after transiting the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea following almost four months of operations in the Middle East.
		The first USS Enterprise, a British supply sloop, was captured in May 1775 at St. Johns, Quebec, Canada, by Colonel B. Arnold, named Enterprise, and armed for use on Lake Champlain.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/batgru-65.htm (4189 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - CSS Alabama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On January 11, 1863, she sank the auxiliary schooner USS Hatteras of the Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron about 20 miles south of Galveston.
		In the meantime, the screw sloop USS Kearsarge under Captain John A. Winslow arrived at Cherbourg from Flushing, Belgium, on June 14.
		Guérout, "Engagement between the C.S.S. Alabama and the U.S.S. Kearsarge." Leary, "'Alabama' vs. 'Kearsarge.'" Robinson, Shark of the Confederacy.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_002600_cssalabama.htm (704 words)

	SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Just as their portraits of the town's leading citizens describe the public character of an economically successful area, their photographs of machinery and new industry communicate a reverence for the power of mechanical invention.
		Photographs such as the one made at the Hartford factory of Woodruff & Beach upon completion of the engine for the USS Kearsarge—launched at Porstmouth, New Hampshire, on September 11, 1861—were advertisements for local business as well as patriotic symbols of Union naval prowess in the first months of the Civil War.
		A "Screw Steamer," or "Sloop-of-War," the Kearsarge went on to glory, sinking the Confederate cruiser Alabama in the harbor of Cherbourg, France, on June 19, 1864.
	americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=7125 (184 words)

	Highlights for June 19
		Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a ship-to-ship duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks to the floor of the Atlantic, ending an illustrious career that saw some 68 Union merchant vessels destroyed or captured by the Confederate raider.
		In 1862, the CSS Alabama, a 1,000-ton screw-steam sloop of war, was built at Liverpool, England, for the Confederate Navy.
		The USS Kearsarge, a steam-sloop that had been pursuing the Alabama, learned of its presence at Cherbourg and promptly steamed to the French port.
	twotrees.www.50megs.com /attic/history/06/19h.html (1230 words)

	John Philip
		He was then pomoted to acting-master and assigned the sloop of war USS MARION of the Gulf Blockading Squadron, the war necessitating speedy promotion for trained officers.
		On July 16,1862 he was commissioned a lieutenant and from September 1862 to January 1865 was executive officer of the steam gunboat USS CHIPPEWA, screw sloop USS PAWNEE, and the Monitor MONTAUK in succession, being actively involved in operations involved with the siege of Charleston.
		He was given command of the steel cruiser USS ATLANTA in 1890, but was transferred to be the Inspector of the armored cruiser NEW YORK that was then building.
	www.spanamwar.com /philip.htm (1622 words)

	U.S.S. Alabama
		The keel of the USS ALABAMA (BB-60) was laid at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 1 February 1940, the sixth vessel to bear the name of Alabama.
		She was sunk by the USS KEARSARGE off Cherbourg, France in 1864.
		Her hulk, after lying on the bottom of Chesapeake Bay, where she had been sunk on 27 September 1921, was sold on 19 March 1924.
	www.ussalabama.com /html/history/index.php (1992 words)

	Mollus War Papers
		The Kearsarge was a fast steamer for those days, and had made an average of thirteen and a half knots with moderate head wind and sea.
		The crew of each vessel was as follows: Kearsarge, one hundred and sixty-three, all told; the Alabama, about the same number, as near as could be ascertained at the time, although her crew had numbered as high as one hundred and seventy, a short time before.
		The total number of shot and shell fired by the Kearsarge was one hundred and seventy-three, while it was stated that the Alabama fired about three hundred and seventy.
	suvcw.org /mollus/warpapers/MAv1a2p11.htm (4446 words)

	The world's top css alabama websites
		Continuing its path of destruction through the West Indies, Alabama sank USS Hatteras along the Texas coast and captured her crew.
		Pursuing the raider, the American sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge arrived three days later and took up a patrol just outside the harbor.
		While Kearsarge rescued most of Alabama’s survivors, Semmes and 41 others were picked up by the British yacht Deerhound and escaped to England.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/css_alabama (712 words)

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