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    USS Ajax, originally named USS Manayunk after a town in Pennsylvania, was a single-turreted Canonicus-class monitor built for the Union Navy during the...
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  • have been named Ajax, after Ajax, a Greek hero during the Trojan War. USS Ajax (1869), launched in 1864 as USS Manayunk, renamed Ajax in 1869. Decommissioned...
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    serve in that action. She was later pulled out of reserve and renamed USS Ajax (1864) by the prominent Philadelphian Secretary of the Navy Adolph E. Borie...
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    Ajax was a wooden, propeller-driven steamship built in 1864. She provided logistical support to the Union Army on the Atlantic coast during the American...
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  • USS Manayunk may refer to: USS Manayunk (1864), was renamed Ajax 15 June 1869 USS Manayunk (AN-81), was launched 30 March 1945 This article includes a...
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  • the Pacific Coast afterward. SS Ajax – One of four steamships HMS Ajax – One of eight vessels of the Royal Navy USS Ajax – One of four vessels of the United...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to USS Camanche (ship, 1864). navsource.org: USS Camanche hazegray.org: USS Camanche (http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/camanche...
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    where she remained until 1864 when she was decommissioned and broken up. Captain John McNeil Boyd R.N. was master of the Ajax while she was in Dún Laoghaire...
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    fire the boilers. Ajax was called in rescue service after the sinking of United States Navy O-class submarine USS O-5 (SS-66). USS O-5 sank bow first...
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    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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    The first USS Severn was a wooden screw sloop of war in commission in the United States Navy from 1869 to 1871. She was named for Severn River in Maryland...
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    USS Alligator, the fourth United States Navy ship of that name, is the first known U.S. Navy submarine, and was active during the American Civil War (the...
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    (SS-60/SF-2) USS AA-3 (SS-61/SF-3) USS A. C. Powell (1861) USS A. Childs (1865) USS A. Collier (1864) USS A. D. Vance (1862) USS A. DeGroat (1863) USS A. G....
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    USS Choctaw was a large (1,004-ton) steamer built for the merchant service, but acquired by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil...
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    distance. The ship retained her name and was commissioned again on 2 February 1864, rearmed with a pair of 8-inch (203 mm), 150-pound Parrott rifles in the...
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    independent commanders would lead to discord and confusion. In the 30th of April 1864 She was dispatched past the Union blockade to Cuba, loaded with a cargo of...
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    USS Mississippi, a paddle frigate, was the first ship of the United States Navy to bear that name. She was named for the Mississippi River. Her sister...
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    H. L. Hunley (submarine) (category Maritime incidents in February 1864)
    against an enemy target on the night of 17 February 1864. The target was United States Navy ship, USS Housatonic, a 1,240-long-ton (1,260 t) wooden-hulled...
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    The USS Queen of the West was a sidewheel steamer ram ship and the flagship of the United States Ram Fleet and the Mississippi Marine Brigade. It was...
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    The first USS Wyoming of the United States Navy was a wooden-hulled screw sloop that fought on the Union side during the American Civil War. Sent to the...
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    November 1873 to May 1874, Miller served as commanding officer of the monitor USS Ajax. From June 1874 to August 1875, he was again an assistant hydrographer...
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    HMS Malacca 30 Oct: HMS Prince Consort 15 Nov: USS Camanche 3 Dec: HMS Ajax 7 Dec: Chesapeake 8 Dec: Great Britain Unkn: J. M. Chapman ← 1862 1864 →...
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  • USS Westfield was a sidewheel steam ferryboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Westfield was purchased by the Navy from Cornelius...
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    other warships followed, which had also pursued Chesapeake: USS Acacia, USS Cornubia, and USS Niagara. News of the capture and the fact that Maritimers...
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    The first USS Hatteras was a 1,126-ton iron-hulled steamer purchased by the Union Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was outfitted as...
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    Dec: USS F-1 18 Dec: Mariposa 19 Dec: SM UB-56 24 Dec: HMS Penshurst 25 Dec: Ajax, Espagne, SM U-87 30 Dec: HMT Aragon, HMS Attack 31 Dec: USS Fli-Hawk...
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    destroyer repair USS Jason (AR-8), large repair ship USS Ajax, large repair ship USS Nestor (ARB-6), repair ship and small craft tender USS Oceanus (ARB-2)...
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    HMS Malacca 30 Oct: HMS Prince Consort 15 Nov: USS Camanche 3 Dec: HMS Ajax 7 Dec: Chesapeake 8 Dec: Great Britain Unkn: J. M. Chapman ← 1862 1864 →...
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  • USS Sumpter was a steamship in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Sumpter or Sumter, ex-Atlanta, ex-Parker Vein, was built in 1853...
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    HMS Malacca 30 Oct: HMS Prince Consort 15 Nov: USS Camanche 3 Dec: HMS Ajax 7 Dec: Chesapeake 8 Dec: Great Britain Unkn: J. M. Chapman ← 1862 1864 →...
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