• USS Somerset was a wooden-hulled, side-wheel ferryboat built at Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1862, which was purchased by the Navy at Washington, D. C., on 4 March...
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  • USS Somerset may refer to: USS Somerset (1862), a side wheel ferryboat launched and purchased in 1862 and sold in 1865; the rejuvenated Somerset began...
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  • the line of the Royal Navy HMS Somerset (F82), launched in 1994 USS Somerset (1862), a side wheel ferryboat USS Somerset (AK-212), an Alamosa-class cargo...
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  • USS Brockenborough was a sloop captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy primarily as a ship's tender and...
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  • screw steamer, was captured 4 May 1862 by USS Somerset; purchased from the prize court at Key West, Florida, 8 November 1862; outfitted at New York Navy Yard;...
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    (YFB-23, CVE-67) USS Solvay (PC-603) USS Somerfield (1861) USS Somers (1812, 1842, TB-22, DD-301, DD-381, DD-947/DDG-34) USS Somerset (1862, ID-2162, AK-212...
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  • 9-inch smoothbore cannon and four 32-pounder guns. On 3 April 1862, she was commissioned as USS Fort Henry, Acting Lieutenant J. C. Walsh in command. Assigned...
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    11 August 1862 and the sloop Capitola 8 November 1862; and during mid-July 1863, operated close inshore in company with USS Jacob Bell and USS Racer under...
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    to her on July 7, 1862. Nine days later, Howell was promoted to commander on July 16, 1862. Tahoma joined the gunboat USS Somerset in putting 111 men...
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    and tar on 3 June; the expedition of boat crews from the steamer and USS Somerset to Marsh Island, Florida, to destroy salt and salt works on 15 July;...
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    Franklin Township is a township in Somerset County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is centrally located in the Raritan Valley region, within the New...
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    known as the Battle of Cedar Key. The USS Somerset captured the blockade runner Curlew off Atsena Otie Key in June 1862; and later she destroyed the salt...
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    SS Great Eastern (category Maritime incidents in August 1862)
    cruises, cargo loadings, and brief exhibitions from late 1861 to mid 1862. By July 1862, the ship was turning its first noteworthy profits, carrying 500 passengers...
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    First Lord of the Admiralty, the Duke of Somerset, supporting the construction of a turret ship. In January 1862, the Admiralty agreed to construct a ship...
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  • 2001, USS Somerset (LPD-25), named for Somerset County, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 crashed during the September 11 attacks of 2001, USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26)...
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    sisters never married. Mary Pricilla married Augustus Cory Scoles in London in 1862. In 1850, Waud sailed from London aboard the sailing ship Hendrik Hudson...
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    In February 1862, the larger CSS Virginia joined the Confederate Navy, having been rebuilt at Norfolk. Constructed on the hull of USS Merrimack, Virginia...
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  • USS Thornton (AVD-11). 20 December – Aircraft from the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) mistakenly bombed the U.S. Navy submarine USS Pompano (SS-181)...
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    of supplies. When the US entered World War I, she was seized and renamed USS Von Steuben, and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she...
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    James Clark Ross (category 1862 deaths)
    Sir James Clark Ross DCL FRS FLS FRAS (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar...
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    Great Locomotive Chase (category 1862 in Georgia (U.S. state))
    Chattahoochee River until they were rescued by the Union blockade vessel USS Somerset in the Gulf of Mexico. The remaining six were held as prisoners of war...
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    Abraham Lincoln ended the crisis by releasing the envoys. On November 8, 1861, USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British...
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  • Condition, 1997, p 43. A Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Co, Editeurs. Bruxelles. 1862. Part 5. Volume 9. Page 11. "Seal & Motto". Phillips Academy Andover Website...
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    Enterprise was armed with two 100-pounder smoothbore, muzzle-loading Somerset cannon and two rifled 110-pounder breech-loading guns. The breech-loading...
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    words of Lt. William Budd of the Union converted ferryboat Somerset, " ... the capture of the U.S.S. Adela, intending in the event of their being successful...
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  • 15 April 1862, completed 2 May 1862. SS Catalonian (Yard No.15), cargo ship for J Bibby & Sons, launched 15 July 1862, completed 2 August 1862. SS Persian...
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    Ericsson (1803–1899), inventor and mechanical engineer who designed the USS Monitor William M. Evarts (1818–1901), lawyer, US Secretary of State, US...
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    defense, including: USS Richard B. Anderson USS Cochrane USS Kirk USS Gurke USS Rowan USS Cook USS Bausell The USS Enterprise and USS Coral Sea carrier...
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    Marshall I. Ludington (category People from Somerset, Pennsylvania)
    retired the following day. Marshall I. Ludington was born in Somerset Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1839, the son of Zalmon Ludington...
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  • Chambers and USS Somerset drove off a body of Confederate sailors embarking on a boat expedition ordered to capture the Union's side-wheel steamer USS Adela...
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