Decrease Font Size Increase Font Size
Login

Military Photos



USS Ammonoosuc (1868-1883)

(88 total words in this text)
(1877 Reads)  Printer-friendly page
USS Ammonoosuc, a 3850-ton steam frigate, was built at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, as part of a Civil War program of large, very fast, steam cruisers. Launched in July 1864, her completion was delayed when the war ended. After installation of her engines at New York, she ran trials in June 1868, attaining the then-extraordinary speed of over 17 knots. After trials, Ammonoosuc was laid up at Boston. Renamed Iowa in May 1869, she saw no active service and was finally sold in September 1883.

Military History
Forum Posts

Military Polls

Which branch of the armed forces did you serve?

[ Results | Polls ]

Votes: 143

This Day in History
1738: English parliament declares war on Spain.

1800: The USS Essex becomes first U.S. Navy vessel to pass the Cape of Good Hope.

1814: The HMS Phoebe and Cherub capture the USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile.

1854: Britain and France declare war on Russia.

1862: Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of New Mexico territory when they turn the Rebels back at Glorieta Pass.

1864: A group of Copperheads attack Federal soldiers in Charleston, Illinois. Five are killed and twenty wounded.

1917: The Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is founded, Great Britains first official service women.

1939: The Spanish Civil War ends as Madrid falls to Francisco Franco.

1941: Andrew Browne Cunningham, Admiral of the British Fleet, commands the British Royal Navys destruction of three major Italian battleships and two destroyers in the Battle of Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean.

1942: A British ship, the HMS Capbeltown, a Lend-Lease American destroyer, which was specifically rammed into a German occupied dry-dock in France, explodes, knocking the area out of action for the German battleship Tirpitz.