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USS Ohio

Sloop:
  • Laid down in 1817 at New York Navy Yard
  • Launched, 30 May 1820 and placed in ordinary
  • Refitted for service and commissioned USS Ohio in 1838
  • USS Ohio sailed 16 October 1838 to join the Mediterranean Squadron under Commodore Issac Hull. Acting as flagship
  • Returned to Boston in 1849 to be placed in ordinary from 1841 to 1846, served as receiving ship
  • Recommissioned, 7 December 1846 for the Mexican War, sailing, 4 January 1847 for the Gulf of Mexico, arriving off Vera Cruz 22 March 1847
  • Returned to New York, 9 May 1847
  • Sailed to join the Pacific Squadron, 26 June 1847
  • Returned to Boston in 1850 and placed in ordinary
  • Reactivated to serve as receiving ship at Boston in 1851
  • Placed in ordinary in 1875
  • Struck from the Naval Register and sold, 27 September 1883, to J.L. Snow, Rockland, ME.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,724 t.
    Length 197'
    Beam 53'
    Draft 22' 2"
    Speed unknown
    Complement 840
    Armament
    twelve 8" guns
    seven 32-pdr
    Propulsion sail
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    Wabash 120k Boston Navy Yard waterfront, about 1870. Ships laid up and housed over, on the right, are Iowa (ex-Ammonsooc, 1868-1888), inboard, and USS Niagara. On the stocks in left center, with sterns visible between and beyond the two shiphouses, are Connecticut (ex-Pompanoosuc), and Pennsylvania (ex-Keywadin). The receiving ship USS Ohio (1838-1883) is in the middle distance. Donation of CAPT. Yancey S. Williams, USN, 1928.
    US Navy photo # NH 42470. from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command    		 Robert Hurst
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