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    The first USS Narragansett was a 2nd class screw sloop in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Narragansett was built at the Boston Navy...
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  • USS Narragansett may refer to the following ships operated by the United States Navy: USS Narragansett (1859), a Union sloop, launched in 1859 and decommissioned...
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    the sloop USS Narragansett (1859) visited Nikunau, Beru, Tabiteuea, Abaiang and Tawara. 1889, the steam powered sloop USS Iroquois (1859) visited Butaritari...
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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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    YT-133/YTM-133) USS Narragansett (1859, SP-2196, SP-1163/YFB-1163, AT-88/ATF-88, T-ATF-167, T-ATS-14) USS Narraguagas (AOG-32) USS Narwhal (SS-17, SS-167...
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  • Paraguay expedition commanded the store ship Supply. From 1859 to 1860, Stanly was on the steamer USS Wyandotte. On May 9, 1860, Wyandotte captured the slave...
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    is its capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay before English settlers began arriving in the early 17th century...
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    George Dewey (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    Academy. The next year he did special surveying work on the steam sloop USS Narragansett. He was then briefly assigned to the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport...
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    coast as commanding officer of the steamer Saginaw. In 1871–1873 he took Narragansett on a lengthy diplomatic and information-gathering cruise through the...
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    Passage of Narragansett Bay in combination with the new Fort Wetherill in Jamestown, Rhode Island, as part of the Coast Defenses of Narragansett Bay. The...
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    Civil War 1858: USS Hartford (22-gun sloop of war) Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip; Battle of Mobile Bay 1859: USS Narragansett (5-gun sloop of...
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    being sold into private hands, she was finally scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island in 1778. The British sank one ship on 10 October 1781...
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    Newport, Rhode Island (category Narragansett Bay)
    on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles...
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    Dahlgren guns, 1 × 60-pounder Parrott rifle, 3 × 32-pounder guns, 198 men Narragansett, 2nd class screw sloop-of-war, 1 × 11 in (280 mm) gun, 4 × 32-pounder...
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    their era, which were to set new standards of comfort and luxury on Narragansett Bay. After this however, Webb was able to secure only two further contracts...
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    palisade were shot; anyone who succeeded in getting over was killed by the Narragansett forces. The land was poor for farming, but access to the region's waterways...
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    2007. Vandalia 2 "USS Vandalia (1876–1889)". U.S. Department of the Navy – Naval Historical Center. Retrieved April 16, 2007. 1859 Mexico "Juan Cortina...
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    schooner Virgen de Covadonga, was a schooner built in Spain and launched in 1859. During the Spanish-South American War (1863-1866), it was captured by Chilean...
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    Hurricane Center. Retrieved May 5, 2008. Tempest, Mark. "Sunday Ship History: USS Mount Hood (AE-11)". EagleSpeak. Retrieved October 6, 2017. "Horrible Accident...
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    consulting d'Estaing. The Americans asked d'Estaing to place his ships in Narragansett Bay, but he refused and sought to defeat the British Royal Navy at sea...
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  • HM galley Pigot (redirect from USS Pigot)
    Kingfisher, Hope, and Sphinx. French Admiral d'Estaing's squadron arrived in Narragansett Bay on 29 July 1778 to support the American army under General George...
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    Marines assisted in a night battle with the British frigate HMS Lark in Narragansett Bay as Providence escapes the blockade and makes it to the open sea....
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    in 1524, and was the first European to sail into New York Harbor and Narragansett Bay. In the 1540s, French Huguenots settled at Fort Caroline near present-day...
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    was given the name "Canton" in 1872 by Commander Richard W. Meade of USS Narragansett, who named it after the whaling ship Canton, which had been wrecked...
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    would be used by the Confederacy and alerted the Navy, which sent USS Narragansett to patrol the waters near Victoria. The "Southern Association" failed...
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    president of the Naval War College and commandant of the Naval Station at Narragansett Bay. Rear Admiral Thomas S. Rodgers (1858–1931) was an officer in the...
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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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    Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton, Massachusetts (cf. the Narragansett name Massachusêuck).  Michigan October 28, 1811 Ojibwe via French ᒥᔑᑲᒥ...
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    wiped out, just like other tribes—namely, the Yamasee, Mahican, and Narragansett—which did not move. Despite some criticism, Jackson's performance in...
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    honor the five Waterloo siblings who died when the ship they were aboard—the USS Juneau (CL-52)—sank during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 1942). The effort...
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