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	USN Ships--USS Pennsylvania (1837-1861)
		USS Pennsylvania, a 3241-ton (burden) 120-gun ship of the line, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
		Pennsylvania was finally commissioned during the final months of 1837 and, at year's end, undertook her only sea voyage, a trip from Delaware Bay to Chesapeake Bay.
		On 20 April 1861, as Confederate forces threatened the Norfolk Navy Yard, USS Pennsylvania was burned to the waterline to prevent capture.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/penna.htm (681 words)

	USS Pennsylvania
		Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Pennsylvania in honor of the second state.
		A screw steamer, laid down as Keywaden in 1863 but never launched, was renamed Pennsylvania while she lay in the ways before being broken up in 1884.
		The second Pennsylvania (ACR-4), the lead ship of her class[?] of armored cruiser, was renamed Pittsburgh before serving during World War I.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Pennsylvania.html (114 words)

	USS Pennsylvania SSBN 735
		Pennsylvania was the first of two boats to come to Bangor from the East Coast with D-5 capabilities.
		Approved by Congress in April of 1816, Pennsylvania was designed and built by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
		Pennsylvania was commissioned in 1837 and served in numerous capacities until 1861.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/agency/ssbn-735.htm (442 words)

	Submarine Models, SEAWOLF, TRIDENT, LOS ANGELES, and STURGEON.
		Approved by Congress in April of 1816, Pennsylvania was designed and built by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
		Pennsylvania was commissioned in 1837 and served in numerous capacities until 1861.
		The submarine USS PENNSYLVANIA (SSBN 735) is the fourth U.S. Naval vessel to be named in honor of the second state, and is the tenth Trident Submarine to be commissioned.
	www.creative-woodworking.net /TRIDENT/USS_PENNSYLVANIA.htm (332 words)

	Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients From the State of Pennsylvania
		He was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad prior to his enlistment in the Army in 1943, and he and the former Anna Mae Ankney were married on Oct. 5, 1942.
		Aboard USS New Ironsides at Fort Fisher, 24 and 25 December 1864 and 13, 14, and 15 January 1865.
		During the engagement between the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Merrimack, Williams gallantly served throughout the engagement as quartermaster, piloting the Monitor throughout the battle in which the Merrimack, after being damaged, retired from the scene of the battle.
	www.medalofhonor.com /Pennsylvania.htm (11739 words)

	USS Pennsylvania (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pennsylvania, second of the original 13 states, ratified the Constitution 12 December 1787.
		She departed Newcastle 20 December 1837 and discharged the Delaware pilot on the 25th.
		Pennsylvania remained in ordinary until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy Yard.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/sol/pennsylvania_sol.html (332 words)

	Detailed History
		In June 1837 he was ordered to the Sloop-of-War FALMOUTH in the Pacific, being transferred in the summer of 1839 to the USS VINCENNES, flagship of the U.S. Exploring Expedition under Charles Wilkes.
		He was transferred to the USS PEACOCK in October 1840, and continued with the expedition, surveying in the Pacific and on the North American coast in the vicinity of Puget Sound.
		On 18 July 1841 the PEACOCK was wrecked in the mouth of the Columbia River, and Lieutenant DeHaven finished the cruise of the expedition in the OREGON.
	www.ussdehaven.org /history_detail.htm (4134 words)

	Pennsylvania Military Museum, Page 4
		She was in dry dock at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and was one of the first ships to provide return fire against the attacking Japanese torpedo planes and bombers.
		After the war, the USS Pennsylvania was used as part of the United States ' testing of nuclear capabilities near Bikini Atoll.
		Because of nuclear contamination, the USS Pennsylvania was decommissioned in February 1948 and deliberately sunk.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/military/page4.asp (577 words)

	USS Pennsylvania (1837) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The second USS Pennsylvania was a four-decked 120 gun ship of the line of the United States Navy.
		She was the largest sailing warship ever built for the Navy, and the equivalent of any ship to be found in any other navy of the time, but her only cruise was a single trip from Delaware Bay to Chesapeake Bay.
		Pennsylvania was one of the "nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each" authorized by the US Congress 29 April 1816.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Pennsylvania_(1837) (486 words)

	Pennsylvania Elks Trivia Page
		At 12:01 AM on Oct. 1, 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened a 160 mile stretch from Carlisle to Irwin; with half a dozen of its tunnels and forty miles of road being built on the abandoned right-of-way of the South Pennsylvania Railroad.
		A "Dumb" Pennsylvania City Law in Tarentum says horses are not to be tied to parking meters, and in Pennsylvania a person is not eligible to become Governor if he or she has participated in a duel.
		Pennsylvania is the first state to display their website address on a vehicle license plate.
	www.pennsylvaniaelks.homestead.com /files/PaTrivia.htm (8097 words)

	Ships of Interest
		The USS Pennsylvania was commissioned on June 12, 1916.
		The USS Pennsylvania was the largest sailing ship built by the United States.
		Pennsylvania remained in service until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy yard.
	www.brigniagara.org /shipsofinterest.htm (1445 words)

	Fun Facts - Trivia
		On 1 July 1955 the LST was formally named USS Sumner County to honor counties in Kansas and Tennessee.
		A model of the USS Sumner County is on display at the Sumner County Museum in Gallatin.
		Horace Lawson Hunley was born on December 29, 1823 in Sumner County.
	www.sumnercvb.com /fun_facts_trivia.aspx (898 words)

	This Day In Military History... - Page 94 - Armchair General Forums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Battleship USS California is hit by both bombs and torpedoes and sinks at her berth alongside Ford Island; during the battle, Ensign Herbert C. Jones, USNR, organizes and leads a party to provide ammunition to the ship's 5-inch antiaircraft battery; he is mortally wounded by a bomb explosion.
		Minelayer USS Oglala is damaged by concussion from torpedo exploding in light cruiser USS Helena moored alongside, and capsizes at her berth; harbor tug Sotoyomo is sunk in floating drydock YFD-2.
		Contrary to some secondary accounts, USS Utah (a converted battleship) is not attacked because she resembled an aircraft carrier, she is attacked because, in the excitement of the moment, she looked sufficiently like the capital ship she once had been.
	www.armchairgeneral.com /forums/showthread.php?p=601331 (8824 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / USS Boondoggle
		The USS Virginia, laid down in Boston in 1822, was left unfinished after 1839, its construction having cost the taxpayers $197,400.
		The fattest ham in the Navy pork barrel was the Pennsylvania.
		Even in her one week’s sail down the Atlantic seaboard, her officers found her “cumbersome, leewardly, and crank.” This is hardly surprising given her size and the fact that she was, in a very real sense, a movable pyramid and not a warship at all.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1993/1/1993_1_20.shtml (1738 words)

	USS Tennessee (BB-43) Action Report: 7 Dec 1941
		On Sunday, December 7, 1941, the U.S.S. Tennessee was moored starboard side to interrupted quay Fox 6, pearl Harbor, Oahu, T.H., with two wire hausers and seven manila lines.
		The U.S.S. West Virginia was moored alongside to port with one wire hauser and seven manila lines.
		The U.S.S. Maryland was moored to quay Fox 5 and the U.S.S. Arizona (inboard) and the U.S.S. Vestal (outboard) were moored to quay Fox 7, these quays being about seventy-five feet ahead and astern respectively of the U.S.S. Tennessee.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/logs/BB/bb43-Pearl.html (3563 words)

	Samuel Phillips Lee
		In 1851 he undertook an extensive sounding cruise in the Atlantic on the USS Dolphin.
		He was promoted to Commander in September 1855 and took command of the USS Vandalia in 1860 and was at the Cape of Good Hope when he learned of the outbreak of the Civil War.
		In 1862, he was transferred to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and in April commanded the Corvette USS Oneida in the attacks under Flag Officer David G. Farragut on Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip and the capture of New Orleans.
	www.gamepuppet.com /civilwar/admirals/a-sp-lee.htm (360 words)

	Balch
		It was the USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6) and her screen of ships, sent to escort the HORNET on the last leg of her mad dash to Japan.
		The submarines USS Thresher and USS Trout were operating off the Japanese coast, watching for enemy fleet movements and to report weather conditions.
		She was with the USS WASP (CV-7) in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific when the WASP was sunk.
	www.balch-porterfield.org /balch.htm (5193 words)

	Philadelphia Attractions: Find Philadelphia Attractions Online
		As Pennsylvania’s most visited museum, the Franklin Institute has plenty to make Ben proud, including a 3D Theater, and indoor SkyBike, a giant walk-through heart and four floors of interactive exhibits.
		Climb aboard Admiral Dewey’s 1892 cruiser, the USS Olympia, and the World War II submarine USS Becuna, or watch a wooden boat being assembled.
		The historic Ortlieb Brewery, founded in 1869 near the waterfront (and now Pennsylvania Convention Center), has free tours of the bottling house and microbrewery.
	attractionguide.com /philadelphia (1415 words)

	USS Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The fourth Pennsylvania (SSBN-735) is an Ohio-class submarine.
		USS Keystone State, a steamer of the U.S. Civil War, was also named in honor of the state of Pennsylvania.
		This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Pennsylvania (223 words)

	Wallasey History-Wreckers,Pennsylvania,Images past and present
		The wind freshened from the southeast, and soon after midnight the Pennsylvania was in the midst of a hurricane.
		Meanwhile back on the wreck of the Pennsylvania, the long boat, the only other prospect of escape, was lost in heavy waves, which also swept the Captain overboard.
		Some reports placed the value of the cargoes carried by the Pennsylvania and St Andrew as high as £400,000, so it is hardly surprising that the wreckers chose the Pennsylvania as their "especial prey".
	www.mikekemble.com /mside/wallasey1.html (6126 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Studies Aerial Demonstration Teams - Part Two - Thunderbirds - Dec. 5th, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was laid down 27 October 1913 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; launched 16 March 1915; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Kolb; and commissioned 12 June 1916, Capt. H.
		On 25 October 1944 Pennsylvania and five other battleships (5 of the 6 battleships were veterans of Pearl Harbor), with cruisers and destroyers of Rear Admiral Oldendorf's Force, were steaming slowly back and forth across the northern entrance of Surigao Strait, awaiting the approach of the enemy.
		Subsequently moored at Kwajalein for studies of residual radioactivity, USS Pennsylvania was scuttled at sea on 19 February 1948.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1034347/posts (7279 words)

	PA Civil War Soldiers - Unknown Counties Medal of Honor Recipients - Free Pennsylvania Genealogy
		After his command had been forced to fall back, remained alone on the line of battle, caring for his wounded comrades and carrying one of them to a place of safety.
		Checked the rout and rallied the troops of his command in the face of a terrible fire of musketry; was severely wounded.
		Landing on the beach with the assaulting party from his ship, Cpl. Rannahan advanced to the top of the sandhill and partly through the breach in the palisades despite enemy fire which killed or wounded many officers and men.
	www.pacivilwar.com /medalofhonor/unknowncounties.html (3714 words)

	George Peabody (1795-1869) : April 2005 - Posts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was Curate of St. Peter's, Stockport (1837); Vicar of St. Barnabas, Liverpool (1841-49); Minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London (1849-54); Vicar of Acton, Cheshire (1854-57); Vicar of St. Peter's, Regent Sq., London (1857-73); and Vicar of St. Saviours, Paddington (1873 to his death).
		GP was one of three agents appointed from 1837 to sell abroad Md.'s $8 million bond issue, an experience which led to his transition from merchant to London-based securities broker and banker.
		When the Panic of 1837 forced stoppage of interest payments, GP, one of Md.'s three bond sale agents, urged resumption of payments retroactively, and Speed assured GP and the public that Md. was moving in that direction.
	free-blog-site.com /bfparker/archive/2005/04.aspx (15487 words)

	Trinity Catholic High School State Government Resources
		The Constitution provides that in case of death, conviction on impeachment, failure to qualify, resignation, or other disability of the Governor, the powers, duties, and emoluments of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the remainder of the term or until the disability be removed.
		Our homepage is filled with valuable information and resources that Pennsylvania is proud to offer such as: an outstanding educational area with learning tools for educators, access to rich historical treasures, a business resource area, and updates on information technology initiatives that are second to none.
		Pennsylvania's rich cultural diversity and our pivotal role in American history dates back more than 300 years, when the Quaker, William Penn, established Penn's Woods as a haven for the oppressed.
	www.trinitycatholichighschool.org /Resource/stategv9.htm (5349 words)

	Ex Astris Scientia - Federation Ship Names L-Z
		Note that USS Merrimack and USS Monitor have adjacent registries as a reconciling gesture (although in such a case they should have properly named the other ship "USS Virginia" instead of USS Merrimack).
		The name for the USS Princeton of 1843 comes from Princeton, West Virginia, the hometown of Captain Robert F. Stockton, who first suggested her construction.
		But it seems the intended namesake was the USS Pueblo, a US Navy intelligence vessel that was hijacked by North Korean forces in 1968.
	www.ex-astris-scientia.org /articles/name_origins2.htm (2162 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Asiatic Fleet and the USS Edsall - Mar. 1, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The USS HOUSTON died fighting in the Battle of Sunda Strait, wracked by bombs from Japanese planes (The Americans had no air support), punctured by shells, she died firing at the enemy with her decks awash and sinking.
		Our light cruiser USS MARBLEHEAD was so badly damaged that she could not carry on and retired from the battle, buried her dead at Tjilatjap and made it back to the United States via India, using pumps all the way to keep from sinking.
		The gunboat USS ASHEVILLE, alone, and having fulfilled her duties was heading for Australia and met a large Japanese task force, and was sunk with only one survivor, who later died in the Japanese prison camp in Makassar from inhuman treatment as did many others.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/854351/posts (13426 words)

	Business \| Philadelphia Inquirer
		The best known vessel was the USS Pennsylvania, a 120-gun ship-of-the-line designed by Humphreys' son, Samuel.
		It was said to be the world's largest and most heavily armed man of war, and a crowd estimated at 100,000 witnessed its launching in July 1837.
		In 1867, it passed legislation to relocate the Navy Yard to the very tip of South Philadelphia, at the juncture of the Delaware River and the Schuylkill.
	www.netreach.net /~data/yd110397.htm (1802 words)

	Antiquarian Books :: ILAB-LILA :: International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A fine impression in fine condition with full margins.First deployed with the Asiatic Fleet, after two years at Hong Kong USS Ranger began a twenty-two-year career as a hydrographic survey vessel and as a protector of the American seal fisheries.
		She remained under its control until 1940, except for the years 1917-20 when (renamed first USS Rockport and then Nantucket) she was used as a gunboat and a training ship.
		USS Michigan: First Iron Warship Built in the US etching3 1/2 X 5 inchessigned in pencil lower rightMonogramed in plate lower right.
	www.ilab.org /db/books1586_24.html (6670 words)

	History of the USS Perry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is an ever-expanding history of anything relating to the USS Perry.
		The attacks failed to materialize and Chauncey decided that Perry would be of better use in Erie, Pennsylvania, where a fleet was being constructed to wrest control of Lake Erie from the British who already had a small squadron there.
		Barclay recovered from his wound, was paroled, and traveled back to England to face a court-martial, which absolved him of blame for the defeat.
	www.ussperry.org /history.html (6306 words)

	Southern Women, Series A, Part 8
		His second wife, Ann Letitia Webber, was born in New Bern in 1803 and died in Raleigh in 1835; the date of their marriage is not known.
		On 5 January 1837, Dewey married Julia Ann Haylander (1804-1886), a native of Philadelphia, who had moved to Raleigh at an early age.
		1837: Typed copy of a letter to James Gwyn, Wilkesboro, from M. Stokes (son of Governor Montford Stokes), U.S. Navy, at St. Petersburg, Russia, telling of the Emperor boarding the ship incognito, the Emperor's Court, and the city of St.
	srnels.people.wm.edu /~srnels/sources/swmna8.htm (18744 words)

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