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:''See [[USS Pennsylvania|USS ''Pennsylvania'']] for other Navy ships of the same name.'' |
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| colspan="2" align="center" | <small>[[Image:Pennsylvania-ship-of-the-line-Currier-Ives.jpeg|300px]]<br>''Currier lithograph of USS ''Pennsylvania'', 1846'' |
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! style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| Career |
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! style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| [[Image:US Naval Jack.svg|48px|United States Navy Jack]] |
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| Laid down: |
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| September [[1821]] |
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| Launched: |
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| [[18 July]] [[1837]] |
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| Commissioned: |
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| late [[1837]] |
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| Decommissioned: |
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| ?? |
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| Fate: |
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| burned [[1861]] |
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! colspan="2" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;" | '''General characteristics''' |
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| Displacement: |
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| 3,105 tons |
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| Length: |
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| 210 ft (64 m) |
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| Beam: |
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| 56.8 ft (17.3 m) |
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| Draft: |
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| 24.3 ft (7.4 m) |
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| Propulsion: |
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| Sail |
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| Complement: |
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| 1,100 officers and men |
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| Armament: |
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| 16 x 8 inch (203 mm) shell guns, 104 x 32 pounder (15 kg) guns |
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The first '''USS ''Pennsylvania''''' was a three-decked 120 gun [[ship of the line]] of the [[United States Navy]]. She was the largest sailing warship ever built for the Navy, and the equivalent of a [[first-rate]] of the British [[Royal Navy]], but her only cruise was a single trip from [[Delaware Bay]] to [[Chesapeake Bay]]. |
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''Pennsylvania'' was one of the "nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each" authorized by the [[Congress of the United States|US Congress]] [[29 April]] [[1816]]. She was designed and built by [[Samuel Humphreys]] in the [[Philadelphia Navy Yard]]. Her keel was laid in September [[1821]], but tight budgets slowed her construction, preventing her being launched until [[18 July]] [[1837]]. She had three complete gun decks and a flush spar-deck and her hull was pierced for 136 guns. |
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Exploding [[shell gun]]s were replacing solid shot by the time ''Pennsylvania'' was fitting out. A [[Bureau of Ordnance]] Gun Register for [[1846]] records her armament as follows: [[Spar deck]]: two 9 pounder (4 kg) cannons and one small brass swivel. [[Main deck]]: four 8 inch (203 mm) chambered cannons received from Norfolk in 1842, and thirty-two 32 pounder (15 kg) cannons. [[Middle deck]]: four 8 inch (203 mm) chambered cannons received from Norfolk in 1842, and thirty 32 pounder (15 kg) cannons. [[Lower deck]]: four 8 inch (203 mm) chambered cannons and 28 x 32 pounder (15 kg) cannons. |
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''Pennsylvania'' shifted from her launching site to off [[Chester, Pennsylvania]], [[29 November]] 1837 and was partially manned there the following day. Only 34 of her guns were noted as having been mounted [[3 December]] 1837. She stood downriver for [[New Castle, Delaware|New Castle]], [[Delaware]], [[9 December]], to receive gun carriages and other equippage before proceeding to the [[Norfolk Navy Yard]] for coppering her hull. She departed Newcastle [[20 December]] 1837 and discharged the Delaware pilot on the 25th. That afternoon she sailed for the [[Virginia Capes]]. She came off the Norfolk dry dock [[2 January]] [[1838]]. That day her crew transferred to [[USS Columbia (1836)|''Columbia'']]. |
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''Pennsylvania'' remained in ordinary until 1842 when she became a [[receiving ship]] for the Norfolk Navy Yard. She remained in the yard until [[20 April]] [[1861]] when she was burned to the waterline to prevent her falling into [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] hands. |
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==References== |
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* [[Howard Chapelle]], ''The History of the American Sailing Navy: the Ships and their Development'' (New York: Norton, 1949) |
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* [[Robert Gardiner]], ''The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship 1650-1850'' (London: Conway Maritime Press, 1992) |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/penna.htm Images of ''Pennsylvania''] |
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[[Category:United States Navy ships of the line|Pennsylvania (1937)]] |
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[[Category:Ships of the Union Navy|Pennsylvania]] |
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[[Category:Ships built in Pennsylvania]] |
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[[Category:United States Navy Pennsylvania-related ships]] |
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[[ja:ペンシルバニア (戦列艦)]] |
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