Kearsarge: general

[Randi]

Kearsarge
1861
Sloop-of-War


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[pommystuart]

Randi.
Please place this link in your correct forum position.
Thanks

https://www.militaryfactory.com/ships/d ... rsarge-BB5

[Randi]

Good find!
You posted it in the correct place
Thanks

[Randi]

The name continues to be used...


The USS Kearsarge in Stockholm.

[Randi]

Navy Curators Assist Mariners' Museum with Ironclad Monitor Project




Description: 181023-N-HP188-0031 RICHMOND, Va. (October 23, 2018) Erik Farrell, an archaeological conservator from the Mariners’ Museum and Park located in Newport News, works with a device to collect measurement data from a Dahlgren smoothbore shell gun from Kearsarge I (Sloop-of-War) during a visit to the Collection Management Facility (CMF). The Curator Branch of Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) relocated artifacts stored in separate facilities in Washington, DC; Virginia and Tennessee to the CMF in 2014. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mutis A. Capizzi/RELEASED)

[Randi]

11 September 1861 – Launch of USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war

2 February 1894 - USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, wrecked

[pommystuart]

I am reading a fiction book, "Cuba" by Stephen Coonts, where the Kearsarge is mentioned. It was a story set at the time Castro died.

[Michael]

Probably this one; Kearsarge (CV-33, later CVA-33 and CVS-33), 1946-1974

[Randi]

Thanks to Stuart!

“THE SQUADRON UNDER YOUR COMMAND”:
CHANGE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN THE U.S. NAVY’S NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON, 1874-1897
James C. Rentfrow, PhD, 2012

[Michael]

[Randi]

View on deck of U.S.S. Kearsarge showing aft 11 inch Dahlgren shell gun
June 1864

[Randi]

11 September 1861 – Launch of USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war.

[pommystuart]

Pity that is a bit long Randi, or you could have used it in not Scrabble.

[Randi]