MINNESOTA USS 1857
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:00 pm
The screw frigate was built for the USA Navy on the Washington Navy Yard in Washington.
May 1854 keel laid down.
01 December 1855 launched as the USS MINNESOTA named after the Minnesota River. She did belong to the Merrimack class.
Displacement 4,911 tons, dim.80.74 x 15.30 x 7.98m.
Two horizontal trunk engines, 995 ihp, speed 8 – knots. 4 boilers. Hoisting screw, 1 telescopic funnel.
Armament: When built 1 – 10inch, 28 – 9 inch, 14 – 8 inch guns. From October 1863 1 – 150pdr., 1 – 11 inch, 4 -100 pdr., 42 – 9 inch, 4 – 12 pdrs. guns.
Compl. 646.
21 May 1857 commissioned.
Until 1859 was she attached to the East India Squadron.
During the Civil War, she served as flagship of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1861.
From 1862 as flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron until 1865.
She took part in the capture of Hatteras Inlet on 28 and 29 August 1861, the Battle of Hampton Road between 8 and 9 March 1862, and the two attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina in December 1864 and January 1865.
During her career she took 20 prizes and destroyed two others.
In the Battle of Hampton Roads, she went aground and was damaged by CSS VIRGINIA. But contrary to reports she was not damaged when she was attacked by the Confederate spar torpedo boat SQUIB off Newport News on 9 April 1864.
January 1868 decommissioned.
1875 She became a gunnery training ship at New York.
12 July 1901 stricken, sold and beached and disposed of by burning.
Marshall Islands 1997 20c sg911, scott649w
Antigua & Barbuda 2011 $2.50 sg?, scott?
Source: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and some web-sites.
May 1854 keel laid down.
01 December 1855 launched as the USS MINNESOTA named after the Minnesota River. She did belong to the Merrimack class.
Displacement 4,911 tons, dim.80.74 x 15.30 x 7.98m.
Two horizontal trunk engines, 995 ihp, speed 8 – knots. 4 boilers. Hoisting screw, 1 telescopic funnel.
Armament: When built 1 – 10inch, 28 – 9 inch, 14 – 8 inch guns. From October 1863 1 – 150pdr., 1 – 11 inch, 4 -100 pdr., 42 – 9 inch, 4 – 12 pdrs. guns.
Compl. 646.
21 May 1857 commissioned.
Until 1859 was she attached to the East India Squadron.
During the Civil War, she served as flagship of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1861.
From 1862 as flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron until 1865.
She took part in the capture of Hatteras Inlet on 28 and 29 August 1861, the Battle of Hampton Road between 8 and 9 March 1862, and the two attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina in December 1864 and January 1865.
During her career she took 20 prizes and destroyed two others.
In the Battle of Hampton Roads, she went aground and was damaged by CSS VIRGINIA. But contrary to reports she was not damaged when she was attacked by the Confederate spar torpedo boat SQUIB off Newport News on 9 April 1864.
January 1868 decommissioned.
1875 She became a gunnery training ship at New York.
12 July 1901 stricken, sold and beached and disposed of by burning.
Marshall Islands 1997 20c sg911, scott649w
Antigua & Barbuda 2011 $2.50 sg?, scott?
Source: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and some web-sites.