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    USS Vanderbilt was a heavy (3,360-ton) passenger steamship obtained by the Union Navy during the second year of the American Civil War and utilized as...
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    South, after he had helped defeat the Confederate States Army with his USS Vanderbilt during the Civil War. However, he never visited the university. Crawford...
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  • Retrieved 12 March 2012. "USS Clifton". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. 2004. Retrieved 17 March 2012. "USS Vanderbilt". Dictionary of American...
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    boring into her wooden hull. She was raised on 26 April and was towed by USS Vanderbilt to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where she arrived on 25 May 1865. Columbia...
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  • Vanderbilt may refer to: Vanderbilt (surname) Vanderbilt family In the United States: Vanderbilt, California, a former gold-mining town Vanderbilt, Michigan...
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    Kissam Vanderbilt II (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family...
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    bolstered by the hastily ram-fitted paddle steamer USS Vanderbilt, and SS Illinois as well as the SS Arago and USS Minnesota, which had been repaired. Virginia...
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    own ironclads. The Union Navy chartered a large ship (the sidewheeler USS Vanderbilt) and reinforced her bow with steel specifically to be used as a naval...
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    served in the war. During his service in the Navy, Vanderbilt served on the torpedo test ship USS Vesuvius from April 17 to May 31, 1917, the Naval Torpedo...
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  • 8, 1838, and a captain on July 16, 1862, his commands included the USS Vanderbilt, Kearsarge and Housatonic. He was captain of the Housatonic during its...
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    PC-1175) USS Vandegrift (FFG-48) USS Vanderbilt (1862) USS Vanderburgh (AKS-19/APB-48) USS Vandivier (DE-540/DER-540) USS Vanguard (T-AG-194/T-AGM-19) USS Vara...
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    Harold Stirling Vanderbilt CBE (July 6, 1884 – July 4, 1970) was an American railroad executive, a champion yachtsman, an innovator and champion player...
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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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    commerce raiders certainly played a role, and his retention of the USS Vanderbilt in direct contravention of explicit orders to release it to independently...
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    California. In San Francisco, the United States government dispatched the USS Vanderbilt to bring her back to Honolulu by October 22. A pamphlet Queen Emma:...
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    Retrieved 9 May 2019. "The Largest Sailing Vessel Aloat-The old Steamship Vanderbilt Remodeled as the Three Brothers". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn,...
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  • freighter that sank in 1911 near South Manitou Island on the Great Lakes USS Vanderbilt (1862) or Three Brothers, a steamship in the Civil War convert to a...
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  • range, Vanderbilt was an ideal candidate for a pursuit ship, and after being fitted out with a formidable battery of cannon, the newly commissioned USS Vanderbilt...
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    on 5 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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    U.S. barks. While operating in this area, the United States Navy's USS Vanderbilt put into Simon's Town in pursuit of Alabama, but had no luck in finding...
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    in the "Trent Affair", ordered that the Peterhoff be boarded by the USS Vanderbilt just after she had left harbour on 25 February. Peterhoff had papers...
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    Nassau when she was chased and captured on 16 April 1863 by the gunboat USS Vanderbilt off Eleuthera Island, Bahamas. Purchased from the New York City Prize...
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  • M. Frailey USS Vanderbilt: Cpt. Charles W. Pickering USS Wabash: Cpt. Melancton Smith Line Number 3 USS Chippewa: Lcdr. Aaron Weaver USS Fort Jackson:...
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  • American Civil War. Westfield was purchased by the Navy from Cornelius Vanderbilt on 22 November 1861; outfitted at Jeremiah Simonson's shipyard in Brooklyn...
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    from 1864 to 1865. He served on the USS North Carolina in 1865 and USS Vanderbilt from 1865 to 1867 and the USS New Hampshire in 1868. In 1869, he worked...
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    blockade-running steamer, captured leaving St. Thomas by the USS Vanderbilt, commanded by Commodore Charles Wilkes. USS Cherokee | Confederate States Navy ~  United States...
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    millionaire Harold Stirling Vanderbilt of New York City, on 10 May 1917 and commissioned her for service in World War I as USS Patrol No. 8 (SP-56) on 11...
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    operations: USS Kidd, USS Aquila, USS Aubrey Fitch, USS Briscoe, USS Nicholson, USS Portsmouth, USS Recovery, USS Saipan, USS Sampson, USS Samuel Eliot...
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    USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine...
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    Cornelius Vanderbilt. Referred to only as Vanderbilt in Olmsted's correspondence, an abbreviation which led to Censer misidentifying the steamer as USS Vanderbilt...
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