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USS Minnesota (1855) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia USS Minnesota, a sailing/steam frigate, was launched in 1855 at the Washington Navy Yard and commissioned eighteen months later. The first Minnesota was actually named for the Minnesota River, keeping with the US Navy's tradition of naming sail and steam frigates for rivers, streams and bodies of water, not for the territory and later state of Minnesota. Minnesota was repaired and returned to duty, and she served until 1898, when she was stricken, beached and burnt to recover her metal fittings and to clear her name for a newly-ordered battleship. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Minnesota_(frigate)   (197 words)

Articles - Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Minnesota Territory was carved out of Iowa Territory on March 3, 1849, but it was not coextensive with the present state, since the area included what later became the territory of Dakota (which later still became the states of North Dakota and South Dakota). Minnesota is known for active yet quirky politics, with populism being a long-standing force among all of the political parties that call the state home. Minnesota is the northernmost of the 48 contiguous states ( Alaska reaches significantly farther north), reaching to 49° 23' 04" north latitude, due to a small piece of the state known as the Northwest Angle. www.kamero.net /articles/Minnesota   (2767 words)

Maine Bureau of Parks & Lands: State Historic Sites USS Minnesota, survived the Civil War battle of the ironclads of the coast of Virginia by the timely arrival of the USS Monitor. A sailing/steam frigate, she was launched in 1855 at the Washington Navy Yard and commissioned eighteen months later. Minnesota was repaired and returned to duty, and she served until 1898, when she was beached, and burned here at Shackford Head to recover her metal fittings and to clear her name for a newly-ordered battleship. www.state.me.us /doc/parks/programs/history/minnesota.htm   (163 words)

USS Minnesota Minnesota, a territory organized in 1849 and named for a Sioux Indian word meaning "Sky-tinted water," was admitted to the Union 11 May, the 32nd State. Minnesota, a wooden steam frigate, was laid down in May 1854 by Washington Navy Yard, launched 1 December 1855, sponsored by Miss Suson L. Mann, and commissioned 21 May 1857, Capt. S. Minnesota led n joint Army-Nnvy expedition against two important Confederate forts which had been erected at Hatteras Inlet, N.C. The squadron opened fire on Fort Clark on the morning of 28 August 1861 forcing the Confedernte gunners to abandon the fort at noon. www.multied.com /navy/frigate/minnesota.html   (800 words)

USS Minnesota (frigate)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) USS Minnesota, a sailing/steam frigate, was launched in 1855 atthe Washington Navy Yard and commissioned eighteen months later. The first Minnesota was actually named for the MinnesotaRiver, keeping with the US Navy's tradition of naming sail and steam frigates for rivers, streams and bodies of water, notfor the territory and later state of Minnesota. Minnesota was repaired and returned to duty, and she serveduntil 1898, when she was stricken, beached and burnt to recover her metal fittings and to clear her name for a newly-ordered battleship. www.therfcc.org /RFCC/uss-minnesota-frigate--284435.html   (172 words)

USS Minnesota (1855) - Result for USS Minnesota (1855) - Meaning of USS Minnesota (1855) - Definition of USS Minnesota ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) '''USS ''Minnesota''''', a sailing/steam frigate, was ship naming and launching launched in 1855 at the Washington Navy Yard and ship commissioning commissioned eighteen months later. The first ''Minnesota'' was actually named for the Minnesota River, keeping with the US Navy's tradition of naming sail and steam frigates for rivers, streams and bodies of water, not for the territory and later U.S. state state of Minnesota. ''Minnesota'' was repaired and returned to duty, and she served until 1898, when she was stricken, beached and burnt to recover her metal fittings and to clear her name for a newly-ordered USS Minnesota (BB-22) battleship. www.mauspfeil.net /USS_Minnesota_%281855%29.html   (275 words)

Minneapolis-St. Paul - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Paul and the surrounding area is the most highly-populated area in Minnesota and the 15th-largest metropolitan area in the United States as of the 2000 census. Bloomington, Minnesota, home of the Mall of America, is the third-largest city in the metro area and is in close contention for third place in the entire state, coming in at just about the same size as Duluth and Rochester in the 2000 census. In addition, Minnesota is one of several states in the Midwest examining the idea of setting up high-speed rail service using Chicago as a regional hub. www.grohol.com /wiki/Minneapolis-St._Paul   (3393 words)

USS Minnesota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Minnesota in honor of the 32nd state and the river which shares its name. The first USS Minnesota, a wooden steam frigate, saw action during the American Civil War, including an encounter with CSS Virginia. USS Duluth : Two ships have been named for Minnesota's fourth largest city (third largest before 2000), the busiest inland seaport in the world. www.phatnav.com /wiki/index.php?title=USS_Minnesota   (308 words)

List of ships of the United States Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) USS Enterprise (1775, 1776, 1799, 1831, CV 6, CVN 65) USS Kearsarge (BB 5, CV 33, LHD 3) USS Yorktown (CV 5, CV 10, CG 48) www.theezine.net /l/list-of-ships-of-the-united-states-navy.html   (852 words)

USS A. Childs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Besides her being listed as a ship of the (The state of being joined or united or linked) Union Navy during the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War, little is known about this vessel. At some unknown date, her name was changed from USS A. See (Click link for more info and facts about USS Childs) USS Childs for other ships of this name. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/US/USS_A._Childs2.htm   (172 words)

Usn Veterans Burial Sites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Philip Blanch, a Landsman aboard the USS Prairie Bird, died on February 1 1896, and is buried at the Vicksburg National Cemetery. 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. hub.dataline.net.au /~tfoen/burials.html   (16954 words)

Timeline 1855-1859 1855 Jul 30, Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist, was born. 1855 Oct 12, Arthur Nikisch, later conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, was born in Szent-Miklos, Hungary. 1855 Organic chemist Benjamin Stillman laid the foundations for the Pennsylvania oil rush by his discovery that petroleum could be distilled into lubricants and kerosene for cooking and illumination. timelines.ws /1855_1859.HTML   (13706 words)

USS Minnesota - Result for USS Minnesota - Meaning of USS Minnesota - Definition of USS Minnesota - Dictionary of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Two ships of the United States Navy have been named '''USS ''Minnesota''''' in honor of Minnesota the 32nd state and the river which shares its name. *The first USS Minnesota (1855) USS ''Minnesota'', a wood en steam frigate, saw action during the American Civil War, including an encounter with CSS Virginia CSS ''Virginia''. Other ships named for notable features of the State of Minnesota: * USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (SSN-708) USS ''Minneapolis-Saint Paul'' (SSN-708), a Los Angeles class submarine ''Los Angeles''-class submarine, named for the Minneapolis-St. Paul Twin Cities metropolitan area. www.mauspfeil.net /USS_Minnesota.html   (331 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. Her own guns were unable to significantly hinder the Confederate ironclad, and she was incapable of sailing away from the encounter. 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   (1043 words)

uss minnesota frigate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) USS Minnesota ( frigate) USS Minnesota, a sailing/steam frigate, was launched in 1855 at the Washington Navy... USS Minnesota Two ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Minnesota in honor of the 32nd state. The first USS Minnesota, a wooden steam frigate, saw action during... www.wikisearch.net /uss+minnesota+frigate   (214 words)

William Harwar Parker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) He became a U.S. Navy midshipman in 1841, served in the South Atlantic and, during the Mexican-American War, was a participant in operations against Veracruz, Tuxpan and Tabasco. Parker graduated in the United States Naval Academy class of 1847 and was assigned to the sloop of war USS Yorktown in African waters. In the decade following that ship's loss in 1850, he performed coast survey duties, was an instructor at the Naval Academy, and had sea service aboard USS Cyane in the Caribbean area and in the steam frigate s USS Minnesota and USS Merrimack in the Far East and the Pacific. www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/William-Harwar-Parker.htm   (481 words)

The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy That year congressional appropriations to build a new class of steam frigates marked the transitional point in American naval propulsion from steam-driven paddlewheels to modern propellers. The Merrimack, the first of the class launched, was built at the Boston Navy Yard and completed in 1855. In 1855, on her fourth day out on a cruise from Norfolk to Havana, the Merrimack broke her propeller. www.mariner.org /monitor/03_earlydev/merrimack.html   (635 words)

USS Minnesota: Data Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) These characters are from just one entry in M is for Minnesota, a beautiful children`s book that will both entertain and delight readers of all ages. Also featured are the as yet unexplainable losses of the nuclear submarines USS Thresher and USS Scorpion, as well as two of the U.S. Navy`s most humiliating disasters: the loss of seven destroyers in Devil`s Jaw off the California coast, and the surrender to North Korea of the spy USS Pueblo. With the USS Connecticut (BB-18) as flagship under the command of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, the fleet sailed from Hampton Roads... www.csa-archive.com /Regional/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/Government/Military/Navy/Ships/SurfaceCombatant/Battleship/USSMinnesota   (2202 words)

uss_merrimack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The ironclad Civil War battleship USS Monitor rests in 240 feet of water off the North Carolina coast, but its ultimate fate may hinge on work done in a lab on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The conversion of the Virginia during the past year from the former steam frigate USS Merrimack, scuttled when Federal forces evacuated Norfolk in 1861, had been a remarkable test... USS Laverdeire) (USS Loveless) (USS Lucio) (USS Lynch) (USS McCready) (USS McVay) (USS Mermea) (USS Merrimack) (USS Morse) (USS Noriega) (USS Ottaway) (USS Otto) (USS Padgett) (USS Pantel) (USS Pappas) (USS Pharis)... uss_merrimack.networklive.org   (439 words)

Merrimack The second Merrimack was launched by the Boston Navy Yard 15 June 1855; sponsored by Miss Mary E. Simmons; and commissioned 20 February 1856, Capt. Garrett J. Pendergrast in command. Two large guns were out of order, her armor loosened and her ram lost. Nevertheless, she went on to attack Minnesota, but shallow water prevented her getting close enough to do her former sister frigate serious damage. www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m9/merrimack-ii.htm   (983 words)

prevlist_2 USS Relief postmark on philatelic cover from Haiti. USS Delaware return address on censored front sent through GB post office. USS Neptune postmark on long Gendarmerie d'Haiti official cover modified for personal use by a Capt., USMC. www.mayoph.com /prevlist_2.htm   (6856 words)

Browse Group mn004 at back-n-front.com USS North Dakota-Battleship Circa:1919 Published by Brown Brothers Naval Views of Newport News Virginia. USS North Dakota-Battleship Circa:1919 Published by Unknown Publisher. USS Battleship-North Dakota-Shellback Circa:1921 Published by The Middlesex Sales Company of Brooklyn New York. back-n-front.com /mn004   (11998 words)

January 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) 1855 - The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge. 1960 - The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record when by descending to the deepest point in the Pacific Ocean. 1968 - North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo, claiming the ship violated their territorial waters while spying. www.infoslurp.com /information/January_23   (1383 words)

NARA | Facilities | Illinois Records of regional offices in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin, specifically the auditor or accounting division for all States; and the Investigation and Enforcement Division, State and county administrators, and the Sugar Division for some States. Other records document fish hatcheries in Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin and cover topics such as flood control, recreational areas, water level management, water pollution, watersheds and their effects on fish and wildlife as well as cooperation with other agencies, financial management, production, and public relations. On April 1, 1967, the Coast Guard became a part of the Department of Transportation and assumed responsibility for functions transferred to it from the Bureau of Customs (see RG 36) pertaining to the admeasurement and documentation of U.S. vessels. www.archives.gov /facilities/il/chicago/holdings_guide_01.html   (5886 words)

Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Minnesota Legislature authorizes formation of the Minnesota Point Ship Canal Co. Minnesota Third Infantry Regiment of Duluth National Guard called to active duty for Mexican border fighting Loggers across Northeastern Minnesota are urged to work three extra days cutting trees to help meet the wartime demand for wood pulp www.vets-hall.org /history/timeline.asp   (1134 words)

BIBLIOGRAPHY-CSS Virginia Home Page Says according to MaClay, the grounding of the Minnesota was due to the pilot who sided with the Confederacy. 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. A Sketch of Naval Warfare From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England. www.cssvirginia.org /vacsn/base/biblio.htm   (6330 words)

The Civil War Honor Roll Enlisted in the US Navy and served aboard the USS Anthony; Aug. 1864 discharged; Nov. 1864 re-enlisted in the US Navy for 12 months. Enlisted in the US Navy and served aboard the USS Flag; Feb. 15, 1865 discharged at the Philadelphia, PA Navy Yard. Book states 1863 enlisted in the US Navy as sailor and served aboard the USS Shenandoah to June 38, 1866 fireman aboard the monitor USS Yuma. www.cohassetveteransmemorial.com /wars/civil.html   (2629 words)

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