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Essex (IX-10)
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USS Essex (III) (1876 - 1920)

1912 International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Fox - Jig NFJ

Adams Class Screw Steamer:

Built in 1875-76 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., CDR. W. S. Schley in command

Assignments included;

North Atlantic Squadron - 1876 - cruised the west coast of Africa

South Atlantic Squadron - 1878

Pacific Station - November 1881 to December 1882

Asiatic Station - 1882

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

Essex (IX-10) was assigned 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 1931, and set afire on 14 October 1931

Specifications:
Displacement 1,375 t.
Length 185'
Beam 35'
Draft 14' 3"
Speed 10 kts.
Complement unknown

Armament

one 11" gun

four 9" guns

one 60-pdr rifle

Propulsion sail and steam

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
	469k	USS Essex at anchor, circa 1876, location unknown. Photo from the collections of the Library of Congress.	Robert Jensen
	138k	*Essex* moored alongside Shiphouse 4 & 5, and building #7, Portsmouth, NH, 1890. Photo from Washington Naval Yard Library photo archives.	Robert Hurst and Robert Jensen
	139k	*Essex* at anchor, circa 1895, location unknown. At this time *Essex* was a training ship equipped with 6 breech-loading guns. Photo from Washington Naval Yard Library photo archives.	Robert Hurst and Jim Kurrasch Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center
	51k	*Essex* with Naval Academy Midshipmen at sail drill, at Annapolis, MD., circa 1893-1896. Photo from Washington Naval Yard Library photo archives.	Robert Hurst
	302k	Post card image of Naval Training Ship *Essex* moored at Toledo, OH., winter 1908 with ice gorge and high water. Published by J. G. Bautelle, Toledo, OH.	Tommy Trampp
	306k	Post card image of Naval Training Ship *Essex* at anchor in New York Bay, circa 1909.	Tommy Trampp
	224k	Post card image of Naval Training Ship *Essex* moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	248k	*Essex* photographed during the Perry Centennial Naval Parade, 1913, Possibly at Erie, PA. She was Ohio Naval Militia training ship at that time. Photo from Washington Naval Yard Library photo archives.	Robert Hurst
	136k	From left to right; celebrating the 100th year anniversary of Commander Perry's victory on Lake Erie. Essex (IX-10), US Brig Niagara and Wolverine (IX-31) moored pierside 1913.	Tommy Trampp
	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
	46k	*Essex* starboard bow view at a dock in Sandusky, OH. showing "dress ship" with signal flags, circa June - October 1921. *Essex* was drydocked in May 1921 at Duluth, MN., at which time her scroll head was replaced and her bowsprit shortened.	Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University
	68k	*Essex* pierside at an unknown Great Lakes port, circa June - October 1921. This was her last season on the Great Lakes before being confined to Duluth in 1922. *Essex* turned into a barrack ship in 1923.	Institute for Great Lakes Research, Bowling Green State University
094601015	31k	*Essex* housed over while serving as a Naval Reserve training ship in the Ninth Naval District in 1924. US Navy photo from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Library, Donated by Kenneth E. Thro	John Spivey