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USS Vanderbilt

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Side-wheel Steamer:

Built by Jeremiah Simonson of Greenpoint, Long Island, N.Y., in 1856 and 1857 as a transatlantic passenger and mail steamer for North Atlantic Mail Steamship Line

Launched, date unknown

Charter by the US Army shortly after the start of the Civil War in April 1861

Acquired by the US Army from her owners, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt in early 1862

Transferred to the US Navy, 24 March 1862, at Hampton Roads, VA.

Decommissioned at Mare Island, CA., 30 June 1866

Recommissioned, 13 October 1866

Placed in ordinary at Mare Island, 24 May 1867

Sold, 1 April 1873 to Howe & Company of San Francisco, renamed Three Brothers for service in the grain trade between San Francisco, Le Havre, Liverpool, and New York

Resold to successive owners until 1899

Final Disposition, sold for scraping at Gibraltar in 1899

Specifications:
Displacement 3,360 t.
Length 331'
Beam 47' 6"
Draft 19'
Speed 14 kts.
Complement unknown
Armament

two 100-pdr Parrott rifle

twelve 9" Dahlgren smoothbores

one 12-pdr
Propulsion steam

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
1833k	Mare Island Navy Yard waterfront, circa 1873 to 1884 with USS Pensacola is in the foreground Ships present in the background from left to right are: USS Saranac, unidentified small ship (likely a revenue cutter), USS Vanderbilt (large side wheeler with her engines housed-over), several other unidentified ships at the yard's coal wharf and what appears to be the monitor USS Monadnock with main deck housed-over.	Darryl Baker
32k	USS Vanderbilt at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	.
2253k	USS Vanderbilt in ordinary off Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., circa 1873. US Navy photo	Darryl Baker
1850k	Photo of a lithograph of USS Vanderbilt in ordinary off Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., circa 1873.. US Navy photo	Darryl Baker

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DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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