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USS Yorktown (1839)
Sloop-of-war of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Yorktown.
The first USS Yorktown was a 16-gun sloop-of-war of the United States Navy. Used mostly for patrolling in the Pacific and anti-slave trade duties in African waters, the vessel was wrecked off Maio, Cape Verde in 1850.
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Name | USS Yorktown |
Namesake | Yorktown, Virginia |
Builder | Norfolk Navy Yard |
Laid down | 1838 |
Launched | 17 June 1839[1] |
Commissioned | 15 November 1840 |
Decommissioned | 11 August 1843 |
Recommissioned | 7 August 1844 |
Decommissioned | 9 June 1846 |
Recommissioned | 22 November 1848 |
Fate | Sunk, 6 September 1850 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Sloop-of-war |
Displacement | 566 long tons (575 t) |
Length | 117.7 ft (35.9 m) |
Beam | 33.9 ft (10.3 m) |
Draft | 15.5 ft (4.7 m) |
Complement | 150 officers and men |
Armament | 14 × 32 pdr (15 kg) guns, 2 × 12 pdr (5.4 kg) long guns[1] |
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