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USS Pennsylvania (I)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Ship-of-the Line:

Authorized by Congress, 29 April 1816, as one of "nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each"

Designed and built by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard

Laid down in September 1821

Launched until 18 July 1837

Commissioned during the final months of 1837

Pennsylvania reach Norfolk Navy Yard, 2 January 1838, was decommissioned and drydocked for bottom coppering

Pennsylvania remained in ordinary until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy Yard

She remained in the Yard until 20 April 1861 when she was burned to the waterline to prevent her falling into Confederate hands.

Final Disposition, her wreck was later salvaged and broken up.

Specifications:
Displacement 3,105 t.
Length 210'
Beam 56' 9"
Depth unknown
Draft 24' 4"
Speed 20 kts
Complement 1,100

Armament

sixteen 8" shell guns

one hundred four 32-pdrs

Propulsion sail

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
110k	Warships of the sailing navy. Chromolithograph by Armstrong & Company, after an 1893 watercolor by Fred S. Cozzens, published in Our Navy -- Its Growth and Achievements, 1897. Ships depicted are from different eras, and are identified by the artist as (from left to right): U.S. Brig (Schooner) Enterprise (1799-1823), firing a salute; U.S. Ship of the Line Pennsylvania (1837-1861); U.S. Ship of the Line North Carolina (1825-1867), mis-labeled by the artist as *South Carolina; and U.S. Brig Hornet* (1805-1829). The vessel under sail in the far center distance is not identified. Collection of Captain Glenn Howell, USN, 1974. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #: NH 460-KN (Color)	Robert Hurst
136k	Hand colored lithograph print by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., New York, 1846, depicting the US Ship of the Line Pennsylvania. US Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC2-3122.	Robert Hurst
124k	Lithograph by A. Hoffy, No. 41 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after a sketch by C.C. Barton, U.S.N. It was "Designed and lithographed expressly for the Philadelphia. Saturday Chronicle." Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 47216.	Tommy Trampp
121k	Halftone reproduction of a painting depicting USS Pennsylvania underway in a storm, published in "The Navy League Journal", circa the early 1900s. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 3018.	Bill Gonyo
158k	Line engraving published in "Gleason's Pictorial", 9 July 1853, showing USS Pennsylvania at anchor off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., where she was the receiving ship. This view represents most of the right half of a longer original engraving entitled "View of the United States Navy Yard at Gosport, opposite Norfolk, Virginia." US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42715.	Bill Gonyo
130k	Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 16 March 1861. The ship of the line USS Pennsylvania, receiving ship at the yard, is shown at anchor on the left side of the image. The Navy Yard, and *Pennsylvania, were burned just over a month later, on 20 April 1861. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42714, courtesy of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.*	Bill Gonyo
155k	Line engraving from Harper's Weekly, 1861 of Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.. It depicts (from left to right) the ships: USS Pennsylvania, USS Columbia, USS Raritan and USS United States moored off the yard prior to their destruction on 20 April 1861. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #: NH 59559	Robert Hurst
115k	"Destruction of the United States Navy-Yard at Norfolk, Virginia, by Fire, by the United States Troops, on April 20, 1861" A line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861, providing two scenes of the burning of Norfolk Navy Yard and the destruction of ships located there. Ships shown in the lower scene (as identified below the print), from left to right: USS United States (afire); tug *Yankee* with USS Cumberland (underway, leaving the area); USS Merrimack (afire in left center distance); USS Pawnee (underway, leaving the area), and USS Pennsylvania (afire). US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 59179	US Naval History and Heritage Command
120k	Photograph taken circa the later 1860s, entitled "Wreck of the U.S. Line of Battle Ship 'Pennsylvania'." It depicts salvage operations on the burned and sunken ship, off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia. Note the burned ship hull floating in the middle distance, steam salvage engines and boilers, with their associated barge at right. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 42722, donation of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN(MC), 1931.	Bill Gonyo

USS Pennsylvania (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

Commanding Officers
01	CAPT. Kennedy, Edward P.	July 1843 - 1843
02	CAPT. Zantzinger, John P.	1844 - 1845
03	CDR. Smoot, Joseph	1845 - 1846
04	CDR. Stribling, Cornelius Kinchiloe	1846 - 1847
05	CDR. Page, Hugh N.	1848 - 1849
06	CDR. Barron, Samuel	1850 - 1851
07	CDR. Saunders, John L.	1851 - 1854
08	CDR. Manning, John	1854 - 1856
09	CDR. Tucker, John R.	1856 - 1857
10	CDR. Mason, Murray	1858 - 1859
11	CDR. Chatard, Frederick	1859 - 20 April 1861 (Burned)


Courtesy Bill Gonyo

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