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IX-10 Essex

  • Built in 1875-86 as the wooden-hulled screw steamer Essex by the United States and Donald Mackay, at East Boston, MA.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Commissioned, USS Essex, 3 October 1876, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.
  • Decommissioned, in May 1889, at New York, N.Y.
  • Placed in service as a training ship from 1893 to 1903
  • Assigned to the Ohio Naval Militia to train Naval Reservist from 1904 to 1916
  • Reassigned to the Ninth Naval District from 1917 to 1926 to train Naval Reserve personnel
  • Designated Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-10), 17 July 1920
  • Reassigned to the Minnesota Naval Militia from August 1927 to 27 October 1930 to train Naval Reserve personnel
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 27 October 1930
  • Final Disposition, sold 23 December 1930 to Klatzky Iron and Metal Company for $400. Partially dismantled and towed out into Lake Superior, 13 October 13, 1931, and set afire on 14 October 1931
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,375 t.
    Length 185'
    Beam 35'
    Draft 14'3"
    Speed 10 kts.
    Armament one 11" riffle, four 9" rifles, one 60-pdr
    Propulsion sail and steam, single screw
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    Essex 33k Essex starboard profile at Harbor Springs, MI. with reduced rig and white hull, c. 1912. Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University
    Essex 36k Essex port bow view at Fairport OH. for "Perry Day" celebrations showing white hull and one yard on each mast, 14 July 1913. Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University
    Essex 46k Essex starboard bow view at a dock in Sandusky, OH. showing "dress ship" with signal flags. Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University
    Essex 68k Essex pierside unknown Great Lakes port, date unknown. Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University
    View the Essex (IX-10)
    DANFS history entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway web site.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable to this Vessel
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    USS Essex in the Minnesota Historical Society collection
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