USS Yorktown (1839)
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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, Ca
The sloop-of-war USS Dale, similar in design to the Yorktown.
USS Marion
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USS Marion was a sloop-of-war of the third rate in the Union Navy during the American Civil War launched at the Boston Navy Yard on 24 April 1839. On 10 November 1839, she departed Boston on her first
USS Yorktown (1839)
…April 1837. The first of this group was Princeton, the Navy's first screw steamer. The other five became the third-class sloops Yorktown, Dale, Preble, Marion, and Decatur and were built to the design of John Lenthall. She was laid down in 1838 by the Norfolk Navy Yard, launched on 17 June 1839, and commissioned…
Marion in 1880 at Hampton Roads
Practice ship Marion, Capt. S.B. Luce at anchor off Goat Island Newport, R.I before 1871