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    first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy. She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia. Cumberland began...
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  • named Cumberland, after the Cumberland River. USS Cumberland (1842) was a 50-gun sailing frigate launched in 1842 and sunk by CSS Virginia in 1862. USS Cumberland (IX-8)...
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  • 1942–1943 Sabang 1944 Burma 1945 USS Cumberland p.104, Boniface p.105, Boniface p.106, Boniface "History: HMS Cumberland". Ministry of Defence, UK. Retrieved...
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    Stringham USS Monticello (1859) USS Harriet Lane USS Minnesota (1855) USS Wabash (1855) USS Susquehanna (1850) USS Cumberland (1842) USS Pawnee (1859)...
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    HMS Cumberland was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 21 October 1842 at Chatham Dockyard. She carried a crew of 620 men...
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    USS Congress was a United States Navy frigate in operation between 1842 and 1862. The fourth Navy ship to carry that name Congress, she served in the...
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    (ARG-7) USS Culgoa (AF-3) USS Cullman (APA-78) USS Culpeper (PC-1240) USS Cumberland (1842, IX-8, AO-153/T-AO-153) USS Cumberland River (LSM(R)-411) USS Cumberland...
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  • in Lake Superior Bay". Twin Cities. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2023-04-27. "U.S.S. Essex". Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved...
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    USS Pennsylvania was a three-decked ship of the line of the United States Navy, rated at 130 guns, and named for the state of Pennsylvania. She was the...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1842. 1842 (MDCCCXLII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    The first USS Bainbridge was a brig in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was named for Commodore William Bainbridge, U.S. Naval...
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    USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for...
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  • Events from the year 1842 in the United States. President: John Tyler (I-Virginia) Vice President: vacant Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (Maryland) Speaker...
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    armaments of older ships like USS Cumberland (commissioned 1842, sunk by CSS Virginia) and USS Congress (commissioned 1842, struck its colors to CSS Virginia)...
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    USS Neosho, the lead ship of her class, was an ironclad river monitor laid down for the Union Navy in the summer of 1862 during the American Civil War...
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    The first USS Columbia of the United States Navy to be commissioned was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate, built at the Washington Navy Yard...
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  • The third USS Dolphin was the brig in the United States Navy. Her plans were the basis of other brigs of that time. She was named for the aquatic mammal...
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    USS Columbus was a 92-gun ship of the line in the United States Navy. Although construction of the warship was authorized by Congress on 2 January 1813...
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    ironclad had already destroyed the sail frigates USS Cumberland and USS Congress and had run the steam frigate USS Minnesota aground. That night, Monitor arrived...
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    USS Cairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats...
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  • passed midshipman on 2 July 1845. Colhoun next served aboard the frigate USS Cumberland from 1846 to 1847, seeing action in the Mexican War, first under Commodore...
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    success in this dangerous exploit, and for his bravery in the engagement at Cumberland Head on 11 September 1814, the young officer received a sword of honor...
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    the receiving ship USS North Carolina, and he reported on board October 27 when the ship was moored at New York City. In April 1842, Parker was issued...
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    James A. Semple, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and the Lost Confederate Gold. Cumberland House Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58182-669-2. "Organization the Government...
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    of war) American Civil War 1842: USS Cumberland (50-gun frigate) Mexican–American War; Battle of Hampton Roads 1844: USS Plymouth (22-gun sloop of war)...
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    Confederate submarine which became the first to sink an enemy vessel, the USS Housatonic, on February 17, 1864, during the Civil War. Such blue light has...
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    Africa Squadron, serving aboard the sloop Saratoga in 1842–43. He then served on the frigate Cumberland, flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron, in 1844–45...
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    Britain (Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary and Liverpool Royal Infirmary), as well as at Sydney Hospital...
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    HMAS Coogee Cormoran Cornelia B. Windiate HMS Coronation Crusader PS Cumberland USS Curb USCGC Cuyahoga D MV Dania Daniel Lyons David Tucker SMS Dresden...
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  • The second USS Potomac was an old whaler the United States Navy purchased on 1 November 1861. She was a part of the "Stone Fleet," a group of ships used...
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