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USS Saratoga (III)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Sloop of War:

Laid down in the summer of 1841 at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H.

Launched, 26 July 1842

Commissioned, 4 January 1843, CDR. Josiah Tattnall in command.

Assigned as Flagship Africa Squadron, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, 5 June 1843

Decommissioned, 10 December 1844, at Norfolk, VA.

Recommissioned on 15 March 1845, CDR. Irving Shubrich in command, assigned to the squadron of Commodore Robert P. Stockton in the Gulf of Mexico

Reassigned to the Home Squadron, Commodore Connors, 3 July 1844, in the Gulf of Mexico

Reassigned to the Brazil Squadron, 4 December 1844

Decommissioned, 9 January 1847, at Norfolk, VA.

Recommissioned in 1847, CDR. David G. Farragut in command, assigned to the Home Squadron, Commodore Matthew Perry, 26 April 1847

Decommissioned, 26 February 1848, at New York

Recommissioned 17 April 1948, assigned to the Home Squadron in the West Indies

Decommissioned, 30 November 1849, at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.

Recommissioned, 12 August 1859, for service with the East India Squadron, Commodore Matthew Perry,

Decommissioned, 10 October 1854, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.

Recommissioned, 6 September 1855

Placed in ordinary in early 1858, at Norfolk, VA.

Decommissioned, 26 June 1860, at Philadelphia, PA.

Reactivated, 5 November 1860, assigned to the West Coast of Africa

Decommissioned, 25 August 1861, at Philadelphia, PA.

Recommissioned, 24 June 1863, assigned to guard duty off the Delaware breakwater protecting Union shipping approaching and departing Delaware Bay

Ordered, 13 January 1864, join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron

Decommissioned, 28 April, 1865

Recommissioned for coastal duty two times (1 October 1867 to 7 July 1869 and 16 May to 14 October 1871)

Reactivated, 1 May 1875 for a year as a gunnery ship at Annapolis

Placed in ordinary 7 May 1876

Recommissioned, 19 May 1877, as a school ship training naval apprentices

Decommissioned, 8 October 1888.

On loan to Pennsylvania between 1890 and 1907, as a state marine school ship at Philadelphia

Sold at Philadelphia, 14 August 1907 to Thomas Butler & Co. of Boston

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 882 t.
Length 146' 4"
Beam 35' 3"
Depth 16' 3 ½"
Speed unknown
Complement 210
Armament

four 8" shell guns

eighteen 32-pdrs
Propulsionsail

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
61k	USS Saratoga at anchor after the Civil War, in standard wooden-ship finish of the period. The apparent height of her weather-deck bulwarks is increased by the hammocks stowed along their top behind canvas screens. US Navy photo from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command	Robert Hurst
153k	USS Saratoga moored pierside in a Japanese port, date unknown. Photo taken from "Memories for 80 years", Bakumatsu, Meiji, Taisho, published by The Eastern Culture Association.	Robert Hurst
91k	USS Saratoga serving as a school ship, circa 1900.	Darryl Baker
55k	USS Saratoga in the harbor at Naples, Italy while serving as a school ship, circa 1900. Photo from Los Angeles Herald, Sunday Magazine, May 4, 1910.	Michael Mohl

USS Saratoga (III)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval History an Heritage Command

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