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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive

USS Independence (II)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal - World War I Victory Medal

Ship-of-the-Line:

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

Launched, 22 June 1814

Commissioned USS Independence, date unknown, CAPT. William Crane in command

Placed in ordinary in 1822

Razeed (cut down) to one covered fighting deck with poop and forecastle in 1836, re-rated as a 54 gun Frigate

Recommissioned, 26 March 1837

Laid up in ordinary, 30 March 1840, at New York

Recommissioned, 14 May 1842

Laid up in ordinary, 30 May 1849

Recommissioned, 7 July 1849

Placed in ordinary, 3 July 1852, at New York

Recommissioned, 4 September 1854

Entered Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 October 1857 to serve as the yards receiving ship

Decommissioned, 3 or 19 November 1912

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 September 1913, and laid up at Hunter's Point until 28 November 1914

Sold to John H. Kinder, towed to Union Iron Works, San Francisco

Final Disposition, burned on the mud flats at Hunter's Point to recover her metal fittings

Specifications:
Displacement 2,243 t.
Length 190' 10"
Beam 54' 7"
Draft 24' 4"
Speed unknown
Complement 790

Armament

Ship-of-the-Line - ninety 32-pounder guns

Frigate - fifty-four 32-pounder guns

Propulsion sail

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
512k	Ship-of-the-Line USS Independence master sail plan, circa 1814. From "History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and There Development" by Howard I. Chappelle.	Robert Hurst
299k	Painting of the Ship-of-the-Line USS Independence underway in 1836. Artist unknown. Photo from Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration, ARC Identifier 512951.	Robert Hurst
50k	Painting of USS Independence after the Ship-of-the-Line was cut down to a 54 gun Frigate under full sail, date unknown.	US Naval Historical Center
1843k	USS Independence is moored astern of USS Pensacola, moored at the quay wall, at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., mid photo in 1897. USS Mohican is in dry dock #1 (you can see her masts and bow). *USS Philadelphia* (C-4)** is moored in the channel. File name Mohican 1897-01, Navy Photo, November 1987	Darryl Baker
656k	Mare Island Navy Yard, September-October 1889. Ships present: USS Monongahela, outboard of, USS Monadnock (under construction), USS Albatross, USC&GS Carlisle P. Patterson, *USS Charleston* (C-2)** (being outfitted), Floating dry dock and USS Independence (Receiving Ship) Ships in the channel (left to right) USS Alert and USS Thetis. US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum	Darryl Baker and Robb Johnson
58k	USS Independence moored at the quay wall, at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., circa 1890s as either *USS Concord* (Gunboat # 3) or USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)** steam by. US Navy photo # NH 7055, courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.	Robert Hurst
76k	USS Independence at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., circa 1890s. in the 1890s. Detroit Publishing Co. US Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, digital ID det.4a14238.	Robert Hurst
264k	The Receiving Ship USS Independence is in the background of this stern view of USS Fortune at Mare Island, 23 July 1904. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 374, 7/23/04	Darryl Baker
42k	Receiving Ship USS Independence moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., prior to her decommissioning in 1912. Photo from Treasure Island Museum , from Warship Boneyards", by Kit and Carolyn Bonner.	Robert Hurst
72k	The Receiving Ship USS Independence Navy Yard Mare Island, 18 July 1913. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # MINSY BK 622 07	Darryl Baker
252k	Hand colored post card image of Receiving Ship USS Independence at Navy Yard Mare Island, circa 1912-13. Frank J. Stumm, Publisher, Benicia, CA.	Tommy Trampp