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USS Hartford (IX-13)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Kilo - Juliet NUKJ

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal

Screw Sloop-of-War:

Laid down (date unknown) at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.

Launched, 22 November 1858

Commissioned, USS Hartford, 27 May 1859, CAPT. Charles Lowndes in command

Decommissioned, 13 December 1864, at New York

Recommissioned in July 1865

Decommissioned in 1868, at New York

Recommissioned, 9 October 1872

Decommissioned, 14 January 1887, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.

Laid up at Mare Island while being rebuilt

Recommissioned, 2 October 1899

Designated Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-13), 17 July 1920

Decommissioned, 20 August 1928, at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.

Moved to Washington D.C. Navy Yard, 18 October 1938

Towed to Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., 19 October 1945

Reclassified as a relic

Final Disposition, sank at her berth, 20 November 1956, and subsequently dismantled at Portsmouth, VA. in 1957.

Specifications:
Displacement 2,900 t.
Length 220'
Beam 44'
Draft 17' 2"
Speed 13.5 kts
Complement 302
Armament

twenty 9" Dahlgren smoothbores

two 30-pdr. Parrott rivles

two 12-pdrs

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	127k	USS Hartford as she passes Fort St. Philip and is confronted by the Confederate ironclad CSS Louisiana and in a quick exchange of fire, steams safely up the river towards New Orleans without suffering serious damage. A Library of Congress image from "An Illustrated History of the United States Navy" by Chester G. Hearn.	Robert Hurst
	128k	USS Hartford while running Fort St. Philip ran into a load of trouble. The Confederate tug *Mosher* laid a fire raft beside Farragut's flagship and set her on fire. The signal officer on *Hartford* dropped a few shells onto the fire raft and blew it up. Hosed down, *Hartford* steered up river with her port beam still smoldering. A Library of Congress image from "An Illustrated History of the United States Navy" by Chester G. Hearn.	Robert Hurst
	101k	USS Hartford at anchor on the Mississippi River. A Library of Congress image from "An Illustrated History of the United States Navy" by Chester G. Hearn.	Robert Hurst
	53k	Sloop-of-War USS Hartford, painting by E. Arnold	Haze Gray and Underway
	284k	The Sloop-of-War USS Hartford, Admiral Farragut's flagship waits to be "coaled" in harbor, date and location unknown. Photo by Mathew B. Brady from the collection the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.	Tommy Trampp
	168k	USS Hartford old salts, 1877. US Navy photo # NH63033 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command.	Mike Reczek
	4476k	Starboard side view of USS Hartford while under reconstruction at Mare Island Navy Yard, 30 August 1895. *Hartford* is just south of the shipyard’s stone dock (dry dock #1). File name: IX 13 Aug301895, Navy Photo, 8/30/1895.	Darryl Baker
	3690k	Port side view of USS Hartford while under reconstruction at Mare Island Navy Yard, 31 August 1895. File name: IX 13 Aug311895, Navy Photo, 8/31/1895.	Darryl Baker
	5097k	Port side view of USS Hartford while under reconstruction at Mare Island Navy Yard, Her hull is now protected by temporary tent structure, 1895-96. File name: IX 13 Y-11, Navy Photo, circa 1895-96.	Darryl Baker
	4131k	Forward starboard quarter view of the hull of USS Hartford in Mare Island’s dry dock #1 between 23 July and 3 August 1898. File name: IX 13 DD1 1898-1, Navy Photo, 7/26-8/2/1898.	Darryl Baker
	2160k	Yard workers replacing the bottom planking of USS Hartford while in dry dock #1 at Mare Island. File name: IX 13 Y-1, Navy Photo, October-November 1899.	Darryl Baker
	5424k	Yard workers replacing the rudder and screw of USS Hartford in Mare Island Navy Yard’s dry dock #1 in the spring or summer on 1899. *Hartford* was in dry dock at the yard during two periods, 23 May to 19 July 1888 and 20 July to 16 August 1899. File names: IX 13 Y-14-1 and IX 13-14-2, Navy Photos, circa 1899.	Darryl Baker
	5853k		Darryl Baker
	3640k	Port side view of USS Hartford in August/September of 1899 at Mare Island. She is located alongside the yard’s shears crane (the tripod structure behind the main mast) likely setting the main mast. File name: IX 13 Hist. 89 At Shears, Navy Photo, circa 1899.	Darryl Baker
	3971k	Commissioning ceremonies aboard USS Hartford at Mare Island on 2 October 1899. File name: IX 13 Z-5, Navy Photo, 10/2/1899.	Darryl Baker
	2614k	Bow view of USS Hartford in commission at Mare Island in October 1899. File name: IX 13 Y-4, Navy Photo, October 1899.	Darryl Baker
	3777k	Stern view of USS Hartford in Mare Island’s dry dock #1 in October/November 1899. File name: IX 13 Y-9, Navy Photo, October-November 1899.	Darryl Baker
	2236k	A 5" gun aboard USS Hartford's at Mare Island Navy Yard in November 1899. File name: IX 13 Z-8 5 inch gun, Navy Photo, November 1899.	Darryl Baker
IX 13 Y-16	2513k	USS Hartford departing Mare Island in December 1899. File name: IX 13 Y-16, IX 13 Y-10 and IX 13 Z-4, Navy Photos, December 1899	Darryl Baker
IX 13 Y-10	4062k
IX 13 Z-4	4301k
	64k	Sloop-of-War USS Hartford at anchor, date and location unknown.. US Navy photo from "Warship Boneyards", by Kit and Carolyn Bonner.	Robert Hurst
	63k	Sloop-of-War USS Hartford moored to a buoy at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., date unknown.	Robert Hurst
	117k	USS Hartford underway in 1905, location unknown. Photo from the Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, US Library of Congress.	Bill Gonyo
	350k	Post card image of Sloop-of-War USS Hartford after being rebuilt at Mare Island (1890 to 1899) underway, circa October 1899-October 1912. During this period *Hartford* was in commission as a Training Ship.	Arnold A. Putnam and Robert Hurst
	282k	Post card image of Sloop-of-War USS Hartford at anchor, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	292k	Post card image of Sloop-of-War USS Hartford underway as a Training Ship, circa 1899-October 1912, location unknown. Published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco.	Tommy Trampp
	258k	Post card image of Sloop-of-War USS Hartford at anchor while assigned as a Training Ship, circa 1899-October 1912, location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	123k	USS Hartford under full sail, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from the collections of the US Navy Memorial.	Stan Svec
	58k	Sloop-of-War USS Hartford at anchor in 1899, location unknown. Photo from the book "U.S. Warships of World War 1", courtesy Paul H. Silverstone	Robert Hurst
	137k	Sloop-of-War USS Hartford moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., circa 1912. *Hartford* was the receiving ship at the Charleston Yard, from 1912 to 1938. Navy Yard Charleston photo.	Robert Hall
	105k	Sloop-of-War USS Hartford moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., decked out in flags for George Washington's Birthday, 1914. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo.	Robert Hall
	70k	USS Hartford station ship for Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. moored in the background of this, circa Christmas 1918 photo of O" class submarines. *USS O-10* (Submarine # 71) is partially visible at the extreme left. USS O-7 (Submarine # 68)** is in the middle of this nest of five submarines. Note holiday greenery displayed on the submarines' superstructures and masts. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 103437, from the collection of Christopher H.W. Lloyd. Donated by Virginia Agostini, 1990. U.S	Robert Hurst
	105k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. in 1924.. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo.	Robert Hall
	666k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 18 September 1924. View of starboard sheathing aft of midships. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo # 4622.	Robert Hall
	368k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 18 September 1924. View of starboard sheathing forward of midships. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo # 4619.	Robert Hall
	843k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 18 September 1924. View of port sheathing aft of midships. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo # 4616.	Robert Hall
	710k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 18 September 1924. View of port sheathing forward of midships. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo # 4614.	Robert Hall
	623k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 18 September 1924. View of starboard sheathing at the stern. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo # 4621.	Robert Hall
	576k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 18 September 1924. View of starboard bow sheathing. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. photo # 4618.	Robert Hall
	215k	Sloop-of-War *USS Hartford* (IX-13)** moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., serving as the shipyards receiving and barracks ship, circa 1928.	Robert Hall
	215k	Aerial view of the Navy Yard at Charleston, S.C. with the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) moored to the quay wall, lower right, serving as the shipyards receiving and barracks ship, circa 1930.	Robert Hall
	204k	The decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) engine room, 1938.	Robert Hall
	375k	The decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. just prior to her 1938 dry docking. Notice the WPA project in the foreground of this photos.	Robert Hall
	376k	Starboard side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. while undergoing rehabilitation, 1 August 1938. Navy Yard Charleston photo.	Robert Hall
	613k	Stern view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. while undergoing rehabilitation, 1 August 1938. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 332-38.	Robert Hall
	395k	Starboard side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. while undergoing rehabilitation, 15 August 1938. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 397-38.	Robert Hall
	254k	Port side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) drydocked at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. while undergoing rehabilitation, 15 August 1938. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 398-38.	Robert Hall
	347k	Starboard side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. while undergoing rehabilitation, 10 November dry docking. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 619-38.	Robert Hall
	349k	Starboard side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. while undergoing rehabilitation, 6 December 1938. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 398-38.	Robert Hall
	316k	Port side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War Hartford (IX-13) moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., undergoing rehabilitation, 4 January 1939. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 9-39.	Robert Hall
	316k	Port side view of the decommissioned Sloop-of-War *Hartford* moored at Navy Yard Charleston, S.C., 1 March 1939. Navy Yard Charleston photo # 140-39.	Robert Hall
	122k	Sloop-of-War *Hartford*, at St. Helena Naval Annex, Portsmouth, VA., 1954	Stanley Svec
	65k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13) bow on view, after sinking at her moorings in Norfolk, VA on 20 November 1956 and being refloated, 16 August 1957	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	84k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13) hulk being pumped out to keep her afloat after sinking on 20 November 1956. Photo dated, 16 August 1957	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	88k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13)'s main deck looking aft, 16 August 1957. On 5 August 1864 when Admiral David Glasgow Farragut was told that Mobile Bay had probably been mined by the Confederates, he shouted his famous order from the deck of *Hartford: "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"*	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	86k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13)'s main deck looking aft, 16 August 1957, Portsmouth, VA.	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	124k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13)'s main deck looking aft, 16 August 1957, Portsmouth, VA.	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	73k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13) at her mooring in Portsmouth, VA., 16 August 1957.	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	78k	Ex-Hartford (IX-13) at her mooring in Portsmouth, VA., 16 August 1957.	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	91k	Anchor of the Screw Sloop-of-War USS Hartford at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT., one of the few relics of the ship that remain. 9 July 1960	Photo by Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	80k	Commemorative plaque for one of the 30 pdr. Parrott Rifles from the Screw Sloop-of-War USS Hartford at the village of Freeport, N.Y.	Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	37k	Wheel and Fife Rail for the Screw Sloop-of-War USS Hartford on display at the US Naval Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.	Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	50k	One of USS Hartford's 9" Dahlgren Naval Guns on display at Hagerstown, MD.	Raymond A. Biswanger, Jr., Ph.D., LT. USN (Ret)
	494k	A 10" Dahlgren smooth bore cannon from USS Hartford at Mare Island's Alden Park, April 1980. File name: IX 13 165643-4-80, Navy Photo April 1980.	Darryl Baker
	466k	Photo of the original cathead plate from USS Hartford photographed in now in September 1959 and now on display as a plaque at the Shipyard Museum at Mare Island. File name: IX 13 45699-9-59, Navy Photo, Sept 1959.	Darryl Baker

USS Hartford (IX-13)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command

"USS HARTFORD, SCREW SLOOP OF WAR 22 NOVEMBER 1858 / 20 NOVEMBER 1956."
A supplemental history of USS Hartford (IX-13) written by Robert Hall

Commanding Officers
01	CAPT. Lowndes, Charles	27 May 1859 - ?
02	CDR. Wainwright, Richard	1862- ?
03	CAPT. Palmer, James Shedden	August 1862 - 1863
04	CAPT. Lee, Samuel P.	1863 - ?
05	CAPT. Jenkins, Thornton A. :RADM	1863 - ?
06	CAPT. Deayton, Percival USN	1864 - ?
07	CDR. Belknap, George Eugene (USNA-47)	1867 - ?
08	CAPT. May, William Dennon (USNA-47)	1877 - ?
09	CAPT. Greer, James Augustin (USNA-51)	1879 - ?
10	CAPT. Carpenter, Charles Carroll (USNA-50)	10 June 1882 - ?
11	CAPT. Luil, Edward Philps (USNA-51)	1884 - ?
12	CAPT. Parkins, George Hamilton (USNA-56)	1885 - ?
13	CAPT. Gillis, James Henry (USNA-54)	1886 - 14 January 1887
14	CDR. Hawley, John MItchell	2 October 1899 - ?
15	CAPT. Reeder, William Heron	23 November 1901 - ?
16	CDR. Veeder, Ten Eyck De Witt	19 September 1909 - ?
17	CAPT. Niblack, Albert Parker :RADM	6 October 1907 - 11 June 1910
18	CDR. Scales, Archibald Henderson :RADM	11 June 1910 - ?
19	CDR. Cole, William Carey (USNA-89)	October 1910 - ?
20	CDR. Terhune, Warren Jay	25 November 1913 - ?
21	LCDR. Morrison, Farmer	30 July 1915 - ?
22	CDR. Ellis, Mark St.Clair	27 September 1918 - ?
23	CAPT. Finney Sr., Earl Peck	3 January 1922 - 12 December 1923


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