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USS Franklin

Franklin class screw frigate:
  • Laid down in 1854 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, N. H.
  • Launched, 17 September 1864
  • Commissioned, 3 June 1867, at Boston
  • Assigned as flagship for the European Squadron, 28 June 1867, sailing from New York
  • Reassigned again as flagship for the European Squadron, 28 January 1869
  • Returning to Boston for decommissioning, 13 November 1871
  • Recommissioned, 15 December 1873, sailing on the North Atlantic Station
  • Reassigned, 11 April 1874, to the European Squadron as flagship until 14 September 1876.
  • Decommissioned, 2 March 1877, at Norfolk, VA., 2 March 1877, reassigned and recommissioned the same day as Receiving Ship for the Norfolk Station
  • Decommissioned, 14 October 1915
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 October 1915 and sold.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5,170 t.
    Length 265'
    Beam 53' 8"
    Draft 17'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 11" gun
    thirty-four 9' guns
    four 100-pdr rifle
    Propulsion Sails/Steam
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    Florida 89k USS Franklin at Boston Navy Yard, circa 1867-1876.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 54189.    		 Robert Hurst
    Florida 87k USS Franklin photographed by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York, probably at the Norfolk Navy Yard, circa the 1880s.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 53945.    		 Robert Hurst
    Maple 111k USLHT Maple at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 9 May 1898. USS Franklin, housed over and serving as a receiving ship, is in the background.
    US National Archives photo # 19-N-19-22-5, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Robert Hurst
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History and Heritage Command
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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