US Warships from the Revolution to 1941

Rigged Steamships

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Fulton
Type: Sidewheel Steamer, 1837
Date: circa 1837
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-12591; Artist unknown

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Mississippi
Type: Sidewheel Steamer, 1841
Date: circa 1841
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-13622; Artist unknown
Notes: Mississippi was a sistership to Missouri.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Missouri
Type: Sidewheel Steamer, 1841
Date: 26 August 1843
View: Burning at Gibraltar
Photo ID:
Notes: Missouri was a sistership to Mississippi.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Princeton
Type: Screw Steamer, 1843
Date: circa 1843
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-13742; Drawing by E. Muller

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Michigan
Type: Sidewheel Steamer, 1844
Date: unknown
View: Starboard quarter
Photo ID: 19-N-8482
Notes: The first iron-hulled USN vessel. Later named Wolverine.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Powhatan
Type: Sidewheel Steamer, 1851
Date: circa 1851 [possibly 1854]
View: Port side
Photo ID: 19-N-13383; Artist unknown [probably Eliphalet M. Brown]

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Pensacola
Type: Screw Steamer, 1859
Date: unknown
View: Port side, at Alexandria VA
Photo ID: 200-CC-103

[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Hartford
Type: Screw Sloop, 1859
Date: 1864
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-3174; Artwork by E. Arnold
Notes: Hartford survived into the 1950's.
[THUMBNAIL] Ship: Wampanoag
Type: Experimental Screw Frigate, 1867
Date: 1869
View: Starboard side
Photo ID: 19-N-13642
Notes: Renamed Florida in 1869.

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