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USS Jamestown (I)

International Radio Call Sign, 1912:
Nan - Item - Able NIA

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Jamestown class wooden sloop-of-war:

Laid down, date unknown, at Navy Yard Gosport, Portsmouth, VA.

Launched in 1844

Commissioned USS Jamestown, 12 December 1844, CDR. Robert B. Cunningham in command

Deployed, 25 June 1845 to western coast of Africa to suppress slave trade returning to Boston 6 August 1846

Sailed from Boston, 28 March 1847, to Ireland with food in relief potato famine, returning to Boston 17 May 1847

Redeployed to west coast of Africa to suppress slave trade, leaving Boston 22 July 1847

Reassigned to the Mediterranean Squadron in 1848, returning to Norfolk 4 May 1850

Redeployed to the Brazil Squadron, departing Norfolk, 1 June 1851

Returning to Philadelphia, 2 May 1854

Decommissioned at Philadelphia, 11 May 1854

Recommissioned, 22 February 1855

Redeployed to the African Squadron, departing Key West, 9 June 1855, returning to Philadelphia, 2 June 1857

Decommissioned at Philadelphia, 2 June 1857

Recommissioned, 15 December 1857, assigned to the Home Squadron

Decommissioned, at Philadelphia, 14 February 1860

Recommissioned, 5 June 1861, assigned to the Atlantic Blockading Squadron

During the Civil War Jamestown sunk Alvarado, 5 August 1861 and Colonel Long, 4 September 1861 and took as prizes; Aigburth, 31 August 1861; Havelock, 15 December 1861 and Intended, 1 May 1862

Reassigned to the Pacific, 12 October 1862

Decommissioned, 17 September 1865, at Navy Yard Mare Island

Converted to a transport and store ship at Mare Island

Recommissioned, 3 September 1866, to Panama as a store and hospital ship

Reassigned to the North Pacific Squadron, 2 April 1867, serving as guard and storeship at Sitka, AK.

Decommissioned, 13 August 1868, at Navy Yard Mare Island

Recommissioned, 25 January 1869, for service in the Pacific

Decommissioning, 7 October 1871, and placed in ordinary at Mare Island

Recommissioned, 16 March 1876, for use as a State Public Marine School, in the Hawaiian Islands

Returned to the Navy Department and decommissioned, 3 March 1879.

Recommissioned, 8 May 1879, for duty in Alaska and in the Pacific

Decommissioned, 21 September 1881, at San Francisco. CA.

Recommissioned, 14 February 1882, as apprentice training ship

Decommissioned, 31 August 1888, at Norfolk, VA.

Recommissioned, 13 April 1889, as apprentice training ship

Decommissioned, 6 September 1892, at Norfolk.

Transferred, 9 September 1892, to the Treasury Department for Marine Hospital Service for quarantine purposes in Hampton Roads.

Final Disposition, destroyed by fire at Norfolk Navy Yard, 3 January 1913, after being returned to the Navy Department Armament: 6 8"/ 55, 14 32-pdr/42.

Specifications:
Displacement 1,150 t.
Length 163' 6"
Beam 32' 2"
Draft unknown
Depth of Hold 17' 3"
Speed unknown
Complement 186

Armament

six 8"/55 guns

fourteen 32-pdr/42s

Propulsion sail

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	319k	USS Jamestown driving the *Alvarado* ashore near Fernandina, Florida, 5 August 1861. "Harpers Weekly" 28 September 1861,	Tommy Trampp
098601607	324k	An engraving from "Harper's Weekly" 5 October 1861, depicting warships in New York Harbor. Ships present are (left to right): *Jerome Napoleon* (French), *Rinaldo> (British Sloop,1860-84), Catinat* (French Corvette, 1851-80), *Boberibe* (Brazilian). USS Jamestown, *Steady* (British Gun Vessel, c1860-70), rowing cutters of the three foreign powers are in the foreground. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 95120	Tommy Trampp
	376k	USS Jamestown off Mare Island with USS Saranac aft of her at the sea wall circa 1874. File name: Jamestown Saranac 1874.	Darryl Baker
	46k	USS Jamestown under full sail while exploring southeast Alaska, including Fritz Cove, in 1880 and 1881. LT. F. M. Symonds named the bay after his son. US Navy photo from DANFS.	Caption - Robert Hurst Photo - US Naval History and Heritage Command
098601608	210k	Single stick exercises aboard USS Jamestown (1844-1913) during the 1880's. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 52182.	Robert Hurst
098601603	75k	Starboard broadside view of the apprentice training ship USS Jamestown at anchor, location unknown, circa 1890 to 1901. Library of Congress photo # LC-D4-8927	Mike Green
	73k	USS Jamestown at anchor, date and location unknown US Navy Photo © 1911, Reviews of Reviews Co. from "The Photographic History of the Civil War Volume 3 The Navies", The Blue & Gray Press, Secaucus, N.J.
	142k	USS Jamestown at left as training ship towards the end of the nineteenth century. At right is USS Saratoga or USS Portsmouth. This picture was previously identified as *Portsmouth* and *Saratoga*. US Navy photo and text from "Warships of The Civil War Navies" by Paul H. Silverstone.	Robert Hurst

USS Jamestown (I)
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