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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 1845, in the Gulf of Mexico

Reassigned to the Brazil Squadron, 4 December 1845

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 1848, assigned to the Home Squadron in the West Indies

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

Recommissioned , 12 August 1850, at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA.

Saratoga participation in Commodore Perry's opening of Japan in July 1853

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

Captured slaver Nightingale off Kabinda, Angola, 21 April 1861

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

six 8"/55 guns

twelve 32-pdr/42s

one 30-pdr rifle

one 12-pdr smoothbore

Propulsion sail

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
USS Saratoga (III)
	294k	US Navy ships of the Japanese Squadron, established to promote free trade with Japan in 1852. From left to right: USS Susquehanna, USS Saratoga, USS St. Mary's, USS Supply, USS Plymouth, USS Perry, USS Mississippi and USS Princeton. From ~ The Archive of the Old Print Man ~ "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion", Boston, 1852.	Tommy Trampp
	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
	79k	Lithograph after a drawing by Joseph L. Jones, circa 1877-1880 depicting a Naval Review in Hampton-Roads, VA. dedicated to Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson. Ships present include (from left): USS Marion, USS Tallapoosa (flying the Secretary of the Navy's Flag), USS Constitution, USS Kearsarge, USS Saratoga, USS Powhatan, USS Portsmouth and USS Minnesota. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 61193. Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.	Robert Hurst
	53k	Sailors and 3" rifled gun aboard the sloop USS Saratoga date unknown. United States Navy photo.	Robert Hurst
098602527	152k	Painting by Fred S. Cozzens, 1893 of from left to right; USS Portsmouth (II) USS Constellation (II), USS Bancroft, and USS Saratoga (III) US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 442. "Our Navy: Its Growth and Achievements", ©1897.	Robert Hurst
Pennsylvania Nautical School Ship PNSS Saratoga
	274k	PNSS Saratoga at anchor during a visit to England in 1899. Photo courtesy of the Imperial War Museum. Image and text from "Warships of The Civil War Navies" by Paul H. Silverstone.	Robert Hurst
	91k	PNSS Saratoga serving as a school ship, circa 1900.	Darryl Baker
098602210	99k	PNSS Saratoga entering the harbor at Le Havre, France, 1 August 1900, under tow. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 108650	Robert Hurst
098602208	269k	PNSS Saratoga at Le Havre, France, August 1 1900. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 108651, a reproduction of painting by Patrick Bombico, January 1941, after a photograph taken 1 August 1900. (See 098602210).	Robert Hurst
098602209	179k	PNSS Saratoga underway in heavy weather off Queenstown. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 108649, photograph by Wilkens of Portsmouth of a sketch by Quartermaster Babcock	Robert Hurst
	55k	PNSS 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
098602211	424k	Photo by J. Brown from a newspaper cutting of ex-USS Saratoga beached at Revere Beach, MA. in February 1907. The ship was burned as an attraction for the amusement of Revere Beach tourists in 1908.	Robert Hurst