The first USS Pensacola was a screw steamer that served in the United States Navy during the U.S. Civil War.
Pensacola in Alexandria, Virginia, 1861
USS Pensacola at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1886.
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Naval Air Station Pensacola or NAS Pensacola, "The Cradle of Naval Aviation", is a United States Navy base located next to Warrington, Florida, a community southwest of the Pensacola city limits. It is best known as the initial primary training base for all U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard officers pursuing designation as naval aviators and naval flight officers, the advanced training base for most naval flight officers, and as the home base for the United States Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the precision-flying team known as the Blue Angels.
F/A-18E Super Hornets of the US Navy's Blue Angels conducting a pitchup-break over their home at NAS Pensacola in January 2021
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The first lighthouse built by the U.S. on the Florida coast
Sketch of surgeon Isaac Hulse USN (1797-1856) as a young man