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	Portsmouth Project
		The USS "Portsmouth," a wooden sloop-of-war, was launched at the Portsmouth, NH Navy Yard on October 23, 1843 and commissioned November 10, 1844, with Commander John Montgomery (photo) in command.
		"Portsmouth" sailed January 25, 1845 for the coast of Mexico where she was engaged in watching the movements of British Vessels.
		"Portsmouth" was assigned the task of protecting San Francisco Bay during the waiting period prior to the commencement of hostilities.
	users.california.com /~paterson/portsmouth/historyoftheportsmouth.htm (223 words)

	USS Grampus
		The first USS Grampus, 12, a schooner built at the Washington Navy Yard[?] under the supervision of naval constructor William Doughty[?] on a design by Henry Eckford[?], was laid down in 1820 on a 73-foot keel, and launched in early August 1821.
		The third USS Grampus was a stern-wheel gunboat, originally CSS Grampus, scuttled by the Confederates on 7 April 1862, to prevent her capture.
		The seventh USS Grampus (SS-523) was a Tench-class submarine[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Grampus.html (1676 words)

	USS Franklin (1815)
		The third USS Franklin of the United States Navy was a 74-gun ship of the line.
		Built in 1815 under the supervision of Samuel Humphreys[?], she was the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
		Franklin was laid up in ordinary[?] until the summer of 1843 when she was ordered to Boston as a receiving ship[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Franklin_(1815).html (211 words)

	American Warships of the Age of Sail
		USS Pennsylvania, a 3241-ton (burden) 120-gun ship of the line, was the largest sailing warship ever built for the US Navy.
		USS Cumberland, a 1,726-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1825 and 1843 at the Boston Navy Yard.
		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)

	SSN 707 Portsmouth
		USS PORTSMOUTH (SSN 707) was commissioned on 1 October 1983 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
		The first PORTSMOUTH was a small warship built for the new United States Navy in 1798 by James K. Hackett, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with funds contributed by the citizens of Portsmouth.
		PORTSMOUTH sailed on 25 January 1845 for the Mexican coast, where she was engaged in monitoring the movements of British vessel.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/ssn-707.htm (965 words)

	Seacoast NH Maritime Heritage Quiz
		Portsmouth Yard was never busier than during the Civil War when this famous steam powered sailing ship was built in 1861.
		Amazingly, the sub was recovered, returned to dry-dock and re-commissioned as the USS Sailfish in 1940 with some of the original crew returning.
		Montgomery and the Portsmouth by Fred Blackburn Rogers
	www.seacoastnh.com /ussconstitution/quiz.html (1217 words)

	HISTORY OF STRAWBERY BANKE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Portsmouth trade remained strong through the 1760s and into the seventies with little interference from the ominous events that were leading toward the American Revolution.
		Portsmouth's trade, as well as its political position, suffered greatly during the war, and many trade patterns were permanently disrupted.
		Following that the Portsmouth Housing Authority as the local renewal agency acquired the land and buildings, arranged for the relocation of the residents, and handled the demolition or removal of several late nineteenth and twentieth century structures.
	www.strawberybanke.org /museum/history/history.html (3439 words)

	University of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections and Archives - Foster-Spalding Family Papers ...
		Elizabeth Coues was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, December 16, 1779.
		Elizabeth was in Portsmouth for the birth of her five children, and often lived apart from her husband who had accepted a position in New York.
		Letters discuss social life in Portsmouth, family matters and the construction of new roads and neighborhoods in Portsmouth (June 17, 1874), social life in Portsmouth, In one letter ACS discusses her loneliness in Portsmouth while JF is away (June 1, 1874).
	www.izaak.unh.edu /specoll/mancoll/foster.htm (21955 words)

	USS Portsmouth
		The second Portsmouth, a wooden sloop-of-war, was launched at the Portsmouth, N.H., Navy Yard 23 October 1843 and commissioned 10 November 1844, Cmdr. John B. Montgomery in command.
		Portsmouth was a very sleek looking vessel, as she had no mouldings and her side was unbroken between the rail cap and the water line.
		Continuing her varied career after the Civil War Portsmouth served as quarantine vessel at New York, 1866—67; cruised off Brazil and Africa, 1869—71; carried relief personnel to Brazil in early 1872; and participated in survey assignments in the eastern Pacific, 1873—74.
	members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/portsmouth_sow.html (621 words)

	Capt. R.T. Renshaw Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		She served as an ordnance hulk in North Carolina waters through the end of the Civil War and was later renamed U.S.S. Renshaw to honor both Richard and his fallen brother, William.
		He died peacefully at his home in Portsmouth, Virginia, on 22 March 1879 and was buried with honors at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital cemetery.
		William B. Renshaw was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 11 October 1816 and was appointed a midshipman in November 1831.
	www.destroyers.org /uss-renshaw/richard.html (817 words)

	SeacoastNH.com - Reader Letters September 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Portsmouth, sadly, has no preserved tall ships and the Portsmouth was destroyed almost a century ago.
		The USS Brooklyn brought the coffin here to Annapolis where it was placed in a brick vault close to where the bandstand in front of the chapel now stands.
		PORTSMOUTH -- Saturday and Sunday, December 2—3, 9—10, 16-17 4:00—9:00 pm Candlelight Stroll The quaint lanes of Strawbery Banke Museum are aglow with hundreds of luminaria, the historic homes are festively decorated, and the alluring scents and so...
	seacoastnh.com /Today/Read_Our_Mail/Reader_Letters_September_2006 (3219 words)

	Usn Veterans Burial Sites
		Thomas Addison Knowlton, USS Wabash, was born in Rockport, Massachusetts, and died at the age of 102, at Ashland, Massachusetts, on February 14, 1940.
		Owen Neylon was born in 1846 and enlisted in the USN from Wisconsin.
		Buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, N.H. Pinkerton Vaughn, was born in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, in 1839.
	www.tfoenander.com /burials.html (16953 words)

	History of Portsmouth New Hampshire NH Genealogy Ancestry Ancestors Portsmouth Cemeteries, Portsmouth history, colonial ...
		Once Portsmouth's red light district, this street was lined with brothels until the Prescott Sisters came along.
		The earliest settlement in Portsmouth, this once nearly destroyed neighborhood is now a large museum featuring over 30 historic homes and buildings.
		Built in Portsmouth, the USS Albacore served as the prototype for today's modern submarine fleet.
	www.gravematter.com /cem-nh-portsmouth4.asp (1455 words)

	HyperWar: The US Navy and Hawaii: A Historical Summary, 1820-1873
		When Captain Thomas A.P. Catesby Jones arrived, in command of the USS Peacock, he was the first naval officer to visit Hawaii armed with instructions to discuss international affairs with the Hawaii King and Chiefs, and to conclude a trade treaty.
		On 13 February 1843, Lord George Paulet, of HMS Garysfort, attempted to annex the islands for alleged insults and malpractices against British subjects.
		Although an American warship, the USS Boston, was in the harbor at the time, its commanding officer did not protest this threatened use of violence.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/fac/PH/USN-Hawaii-1.html (1096 words)

	USS Saratoga
		The third Saratoga, a sloop of war laid down in the summer of 1841 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H., was launched on 26 July 1842; and commissioned on 4 January 1843, Comdr.
		The ship sailed from Portsmouth N.H.on 16 March 1843 but was dismasted in a gale the next day and forced to return to Portsmouth for repairs.
		She got underway again on 3 May and proceeded down the coast to New York Harbor to prepare for service on the west coast of Africa protecting American citizens and commerce and suppressing the slave trade.
	members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/saratoga3_sow.html (2301 words)

	USS Ashland (LSD-1) May 1953
		Moored starboard side to USS FREMONT (APA-44) at pier 3, berth 33, Naval Base, Norfolk, Virginia with 5 manila lines and 2 wire lines.
		Commenced maneuvering on various courses and speeds in connection with the exercise of the USS LST 400 simulating pumping fuel to this vessel.
		Commenced maneuvering on various courses and at various speeds in connection with commencing the exercise of sending simulated guard mai1,and receiving freight and ammunition from.
	www.ussashland.org /50folder/may1953.htm (10232 words)

	Portsmouth Athenaeum Finding Aids
		The fourth series, Miscellaneous, includes items which are either indirectly related to Badger (including a deed for a pew given to his wife before their marriage) and some papers which seem to have no connection (dated after WB’s death).
		WB belonged to the Newmarket Church and then to the Universalist Church in Portsmouth; his wife Elizabeth Rice owned a pew in the First Parish of Kittery before their marriage.
		In 1800 WB was hired by Isaac Hull of the United States Navy to work as master shipbuilder on a 74-gun ship in Kittery, but Hull grew dissatisfied with the work and with WB’s nephew, Samuel Badger, and fired the Badgers at the end of November 1800.
	www.portsmouthathenaeum.org /findingaids/ms007.htm (1851 words)

	This Week in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On July 28, 1855, the USS Constellation was commissioned.
		On April 20, 1859, the USS Constellation began duty to fight slavery in America.
		The seized ships included the Clara Windsor with 677 slaves; the Nancy with 690 slaves; the Lyra with 890 slaves; the Ardennes with 488 slaves; the Cora with 705 slaves; the Nightingale with 800 slaves; the Buckeye with 500 slaves; and the Erie with 897 slaves.
	www.ldsgenesisgroup.org /history/ussconstellation.html (322 words)

	Isaac Hull (1773-1843)
		As captain of the USS Constitution, Hull had managed to elude the powerful British Royal Navy and destroy HMS Guerriere.
		Hull was appointed commander of the fledgling Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, purchased in 1800 and today the nation's oldest operating federal shipyard.
		Ironsides was assigned to Portsmouth as a receiving ship for nearly 20 years in the latter 19th century, but was removed permanently to her home base in Charlestown, MA where the ship is a floating museum.
	www.seacoastsearch.com /nhlinks/people/isaachull (516 words)

	Rg45: Records of Shore Establishments, 1814-1919.
		The letters, most of which were received from the USS North Carolina, relate to such subjects as deserters, personnel removed from the ships under writs of habeas corpus, prisoners held on the ships, and requests for leave of absence.
		The Portsmouth Navy Yard was established on January 12, 1801, on Dennet's Island, an island of 58 acres on the Piscatagua River south of Kittery, NH.
		Among the vessels constructed at the yard during this period were the USS Porpoise, 1821; USS Preble, 1839; USS Congress, 1842; USS Saratoga, 1843; USS Portsmouth, 1844; USS Saranac, 1848; and USS Mohican, 1859.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/guides/rg45-shore.htm (6494 words)

	Old Ironsides History Page
		For his victories, Stewart receives a gold medal from Congress, and the crew is awarded considerable prize money; "Old Ironsides" is the only ship to have all her War of 1812 captains decorated by Congress.
		She is towed by the minesweeper USS GREBE and, occasionally, by the submarine tender USS BUSHNELL.
		The CONSTITUTION and the USS Constitution Museum launch a six-year collaborative educational outreach program, entitled "Old Ironsides Across the Nation," to bring the CONSTITUTION's story to citizens throughout the nation.
	www.ussconstitution.navy.mil /historyupdat.htm (2943 words)

	Santa Barbara County Courthouse Preservation Projects
		It is suspected to be a "studding sail boom".
		USS Congress, a 1,867-ton sailing frigate, was built between 1839 and 1842 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine.
		In December 1843 she proceeded to the east coast of South America seizing the Buenos Aires naval squadron blockading Montevideo on 29 September 1844, where she was active until January 1845 in safeguarding U.S. trade.
	www.santabarbaracourthouse.org /sbch/Histories/usscongress.htm (841 words)

	Lane. U S Navy and Slave Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the squadron included the USS Constitution, or the former British frigates Macedonian and Cyane, which had been captured by the U.S. during the War of 1812, the Royal Navy could not help but notice the allusions to American naval success during that war.
		But the aging, poorly maintained vessels spent most of their time in the long passage to and from the slaving areas and were on station along the 3,000 miles of coast only a few weeks of the year.
		From 1843 to 1857, the U.S. Navy took only 19 slavers, six of which were actually condemned, while the Royal Navy seized 600 vessels, 562 of which were condemned.
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /discovery/themes/lane.navy.html (8216 words)

	USS Preble Previous Ships Named Preble
		She was laid up after the battle until July 1815 when she was sold at Whitehall, New York.
		The second ship to be named PREBLE was a Sloop-Of-War, built by the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine.
		PREBLE sailed for Labrador then made a cruise to the Mediterranean in 1843 and was attached to the African Squadron in 1845.
	www.usspreble.org /previous.html (1749 words)

	Edwin Malcolm Shepard, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Commanded the USS Constitution, 14 June-14 December 1881
		Note: Constitution spent the better part of 1882 in ordinary at New York Navy Yard, then was towed to Portsmouth Navy Yard, where she was outfitted as a barracks ship.
		Whether she was placed in commission or "in service," is unknown, as are the identities of those officers assigned to her there in the nearly fifteen years that followed.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /emshepard.htm (91 words)

	University of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections and Archives - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Photographs ...
		HISTORICAL NOTE: The negatives were prepared by UNH Media Services between 1977 and 1979 from the shipyard's original images (drawings, maps, and photographs), 1800-1979, for use in Cradle of American Shipbuilding: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (1978).
		Henry Preble's 1892 History of the United States Navy-Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. and "Do Your Job!": An Illustrated Bicentennial History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, 1800-2000 by Richard E. Winslow III.
		Portsmouth?, NH." NH As It Is, 1856; "1775-1875 Centennial History of the U.S. Navy Yard at Portsmouth, NH" by Walter E. Fentress, 1876; "Portsmouth Navy Yard 1800 - and her early Commandants/Rear Admiral John H. Brown 1947." f.4.
	www.izaak.unh.edu /specoll/mancoll/pnsyfoto.htm (897 words)

	USS Constitution, History Timeline
		A barracks was built on top of the hull.
		The tour goes as far north as Bar Harbor, Maine, and Bellingham, Wash., and as far south as the Panama Canal.
		Towed the by minesweeper USS GREBE and BUSHNELL.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/ussconst.html (2261 words)

	311 War Patrol #6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Patrol Report of U.S.S. - Joseph Francis ENRIGHT, CDR, USN
		Enclosure (A), covering the sixth war patrol of this vessel conducted in waters of the South China Sea off Hong Kong and the southern tip of Formosa during the period from 10 January to 3 March 1945, is forwarded herewith.
		Arrived in Guam at end of 5th war patrol.
	www.ussarcherfish.com /warptrl/patrol6.htm (1991 words)

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