The first USS Tuscarora was a Mohican-class sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Tuscarora was laid down on 27 June 1861...
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Tuscarora may refer to the following: Tuscarora people Federal Power Commission v. Tuscarora Indian Nation (1960) Tuscarora language, an Iroquoian language...
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1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard; HMS Challenger during the 1870s; the USS Tuscarora (1873–76); and the German Gazelle (1874–76). In Oceania, France obtained...
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King Kalākaua in March 1874, a riot prompted landing of sailors from USS Tuscarora and Portsmouth. The British warship, HMS Tenedos, also landed a token...
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ridge off the coast of the Pacific Northwest was discovered by the USS Tuscarora, a United States Navy sloop under the command of George Belknap, in...
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commended for "defending American interests" in Mexico. He then commanded the Tuscarora. After a tour of duty at the Naval Academy between 1869 and 1873, Greer...
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S. Naval Academy in 1875 and spent the next year as a midshipman on USS Tuscarora. Promoted to ensign in July 1876, he had sea duty on the sloops of war...
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after promoted to commander and given command of the Tuscarora, special service. The Tuscarora went to England with orders to report to the U.S. Minister...
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in which he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1868, and the screw sloop USS Tuscarora in which he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander a year later. Following...
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2 November 1842, 3 killed USS Constellation (1854) USS Cyane (1837) USS Dale (1839) USS Decatur (1839) USS Eagle (1812) USS Epervier (1814), lost in July...
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29 July 1862. U.S. Navy Commander Tunis A. M. Craven, commander of USS Tuscarora, was in Southampton and was tasked with intercepting the new ship, but...
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Navy commanders at the island. The two American sloops-of-war, USS Tuscarora and USS Portsmouth were anchored in Honolulu Harbor, on an expedition of...
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in 1874. At the time, he was serving as commander of the sloop-of-war Tuscarora on a mission to take deep-sea soundings in the North Pacific to help identify...
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August 1875 to August 1876, Miller was given command of the sloop-of-war USS Tuscarora on Pacific Station. He performed a line of deep sea soundings between...
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Charles Steedman USS Tuscarora – Cmdr. James M. Frailey USS Vanderbilt – Cpt. Charles W. Pickering USS Wabash – Cpt. Melancton Smith USS Yantic – Lcdr....
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occurred in late 1873 to early 1874. The Pacific Squadron sloops USS Tuscarora and USS Portsmouth, under Lieutenant Commander Theodore F. Jewell, set sail...
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their selling Tuscarora into slavery increased tensions between the groups. These led to the Tuscarora War (1711-1715), in which the Tuscarora led by Chief...
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October in company with the paddle frigates USS Vanderbilt and USS Powhatan and the sloop USS Tuscarora. The monitor steamed the entire way to California...
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USS Turner Joy (DD-951) USS Turquoise (PY-18) USS Turtle (1775, DSV-3) USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37, LST-1187) USS Tuscana (AKN-3) USS Tuscarora (1861, AT-77/YT-341/YTB-341/ATA-245)...
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Moelfre Bay while evading both British customs authorities and the USS Tuscarora, which had been sent to capture or sink her. The difficulties posed...
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Schenck USS Shenandoah: Cpt. Daniel B. Ridgley USS Susquehanna: Cdre. Sylvanus William Godon USS Ticonderoga: Cpt. Charles Steedman USS Tuscarora: Cmdr...
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he served aboard such naval vessels as the USS Constellation, USS Niagara, USS Brooklyn and the USS Tuscarora. Many of the protection certificates were...
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Cadiz, Spain, only 13 days and 16 hours later. She assisted USS Kearsarge and USS Tuscarora to blockade Semmes at Gibraltar where he vainly sought repairs...
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transit of Venus. From 1875 to 1876 he was aboard the sloop-of-war USS Tuscarora on the Pacific Station. He had several assignments in 1877, beginning...
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served aboard the USS Alaska in the Pacific Ocean. From 1879 to 1881, Stoney participated in a Pacific survey by the USS Tuscarora. After the disappearance...
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the Interior, Peirce called out American troops from the sloops USS Tuscarora and USS Portsmouth. On November 17, 1874, Kalākaua left accompanied by Peirce...
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The first USS Uncas was a 192-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Uncas was used as a gunboat by the Navy to patrol...
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USS Merrimack, also improperly Merrimac, was a steam frigate, best known as the hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during...
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Honolulu in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1874, joining the sloop-of-war USS Tuscarora and the Royal Navy corvette HMS Tenedos there. Skerrett impressed other...
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