Post by Druebey on Feb 12, 2015 11:27:34 GMT -5
I am wondering if anyone has taken the time to go through the entire naval warship/axillary units and done a complete analization of the navies from earliest time to modern times... IF not wondering who would help me accomplish such a feat? I would love doing the research and be able to use it on multiple avenues. I also would like to add that IF I was to start doing one, I wouldnt just stop at navies of all nations past and present, but also the military gear; aircraft; artillery; malee weapons; theoretical; blueprints;etc. IF any one has suggestions on what to add, please do mention them. I plan on collecting from various sources.
I though would ask, anything that you want added or if you want to help, I would want to include all the specifications of the said "type" and also usage and production costs, maintence costs, etc.
So anyone willing to help me compile this list of "units/Weapons"? Even if you just suggest I would love to hear what you think the list wouldnt be complete without.
Example:
The sarissa, made of tough and resilient cornel wood, was very heavy for a spear, weighing approximately 5.5 kg (12 lb) for a 4.5 m (15 ft) sarissa and approximately 6.5 kg (14 lb) for an 5.5 m (18 ft) sarissa.[3] It had a sharp iron head shaped like a leaf and a bronze (to avoid rust) butt-spike that would allow it to be anchored to the ground to stop charges by enemy soldiers.[4] The butt-spike served to balance out the spear, making it easier for soldiers to wield. The butt-spike could be used as a back-up point should the main one break.
The sheer bulk and size of the spear required the soldiers to wield the spear with both hands, allowing them to carry only a 60 cm (24 in) shield (pelta) suspended from the neck to cover the left shoulder.[5] Its great length was an asset against hoplites and other soldiers bearing shorter weapons, because they had to get past the sarissas to engage the phalangites. However, outside the tight formation of the Phalanx the sarissa was useless as a weapon and a hindrance on the march. As such, it was usually composed of two lengths and was joined by a central bronze tube only before a battle.[6]
The invention of the sarissa is credited to Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Philip drilled his soldiers, whose morale was at first low, to use these formidable pikes with two hands. The new tactic was unstoppable, and by the end of Philip's reign the previously fragile northern Greek kingdom of Macedon, once of the Hellenised periphery, controlled the whole of Greece, and Thrace.
His son, Alexander, used the new tactic across Asia, conquering Egypt, Persia and the Pauravas (northwest India), victorious all the way. The sarissa-wielding phalanxes were vital in every early battle, including the pivotal battle of Gaugamela where the Persian king's scythe chariots were utterly destroyed by the phalanx, supported by the combined use of companion cavalry and peltasts (javelineers). During his later campaigning, Alexander gradually reduced the importance of the phalanx and the sarissa, as he modified his combined use of arms to incorporate 'Asian' weapons and troops, not specifically trained in Hellenistic battle tactics.
The sarissa, however, remained the backbone for every subsequent Hellenistic, and especially Diadochi army. The Battle of Raphia between the Seleucids and Ptolemy IV may represent the pinnacle of sarissa tactics, when only an elephant charge seemed able to disrupt the opposing phalanx. The Successor Kingdoms of Macedon's empire tried expanding upon the design, creating pikes as long as 6.75 m (22.1 ft), but all of these ideas were eventually abandoned in favor of the battle-tried Philipine-Alexandrian sarissa. Battles often ended up stalemated in what Oliver Cromwell later described as "the terrible business of push of pike".
Subsequently, a lack of training and too great a reliance on the Phalanx instead of the combined use of arms (Alexander's and Philip's great contributions) led to the final defeat of Macedon by the Romans at the Battle of Pydna. Part of the reason for the rapid deterioration of the sarissa's ability was that, after Alexander, generals ceased to protect phalanxes with cavalry and light-armed troops, and phalanxes were destroyed too easily by flank attacks owing to the sarissa's tactical unwieldiness. The sarissa was gradually replaced by variations of the gladius as the weapon of choice. Only Pyrrhus of Epirus was able to maintain a high standard of tactical handling with armies based around the sarissa, but with the dawn of the manipular system, even he struggled for his victories.
From- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarissa
More modern day example:
Name: USS General Pike
Namesake: Zebulon Pike (1779-1813)
Builder: Henry Eckford
Laid down: 9 April 1813
Launched: 12 June 1813
Fate: Sold, 1825
General characteristics
Type: Corvette
Tons burthen: 875 (bm)
Length: 145 ft (44.2 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11.3 m)
Depth: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 300 to 432 officers and enlisted
Armament: 28 × 24-pounder guns
She was named for Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, who was killed by an exploding enemy magazine at the Battle of York on 26 April 1813. The ship was laid down on 9 April 1813 at Sackets Harbor, New York by Henry Eckford, a New York City shipbuilder who supervised the construction of warships on Lake Ontario. The ship was roughly the same dimensions as the frigate USS Essex,[1] and the largest yet built on any of the Great Lakes.
From the outset, Commodore Isaac Chauncey, the American naval commander on the lakes, wanted the new ship to be armed with a broadside of long guns with longer range than the carronades mounted on most of the vessels of the opposing British squadron. General Pike was therefore fitted with 26 of the Pattern 1794 24-pounder long guns originally fitted to the USS Constitution, but since replaced.[1][2] Two of these guns were mounted on pivots on the topgallant forecastle (a platform above the forward gun deck) and the poop deck, and could fire on either broadside.
On 29 May, the British under Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost and Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo attacked Sacket's Harbor, intending to destroy General Pike before it could be launched. During the resulting battle of Sackett's Harbor, the Americans feared that the town was about to be captured and prematurely set fire to General Pike and vast quantities of stores. The British called off the attack at this point and the ship was saved, although $500,000 worth of materials had been destroyed.
General Pike was launched on 12 June. Master Commandant Arthur Sinclair was appointed to command. The fitting out and setting up of rigging was delayed by the loss of the stores during the earlier battle but the ship was made ready to sail by July and joined Chauncey's squadron on 21 July. From then until the end of the year, General Pike usually served as Chauncey's flagship. She sailed to the head of Lake Ontario, arriving off Niagara on 24 July. While cruising the lake, General Pike engaged British ships under Commodore Yeo in an indecisive battle on 10–11 August.
General Pike returned to Sackett's Harbor on 13 August and provisioned before returning to the head of the lake to search out British ships. After almost a month of manoeuvering and stalking to gain an advantage over the British, the ship was engaged in a brief encounter against the British off the mouth of the Genesee River on 11 September. On 28 September the two forces again met at York Bay, and engaged in a fierce, but ultimately still indecisive battle. As Chauncey had hoped and Yeo had feared, General Pike 's heavy broadside partly dismasted Yeo's flagship, the sloop of war Wolfe. The British squadron immediately fled downwind into Burlington Bay. The Americans could not overtake the British as many of the fastest American vessels were towing the slowest schooners to prevent them being left behind. General Pike was towing the schooner Asp and Chauncey refused to cast loose the tow during the chase. Chauncey called off the chase when the British anchored in Burlington Bay and the rising wind threatened to drive both squadrons onto the lee shore, which was British territory.
General Pike had inflicted heavy damage, but because the British fire had been concentrated on her, had also suffered severely. Wolfe had brought down her mizzen topmast and during the pursuit, the main topgallant mast had also fallen and the rigging of the foremast and bowsprit had been damaged. There were several hits below the waterline forward, and a cannon had exploded, killing or wounding twenty men and damaging the topgallant forecastle. Four other guns also were badly cracked and threatened to burst.[3]
After returning to Sackett's Harbor for repairs early in October, General Pike supported troop movements against the British at the lower end of Lake Ontario until mid-November when she returned to the Niagara Peninsula to cover the transfer of American troops from Fort Niagara to Sackett's Harbor. She remained at Sackett's Harbor during the winter months. Sinclair had received promotion to Captain during the year and asked for an independent command. He was later appointed to command on Lake Erie. His replacement in command of General Pike was Master Commandant William Crane.[4]
Throughout the remainder of the War of 1812, General Pike continued to operate with Chauncey's squadron, although no longer as flagship once Chauncey had commissioned two larger frigates. After the British withdrew blockading ships from Sackett's Harbor early in June 1814, General Pike joined other American ships in a counter-blockade of the British squadron at Kingston. The Americans kept Yeo's ships confined to Kingston harbor, and General Pike cruised Lake Ontario freely from the head of the St. Lawrence River to Sackett's Harbor until October, when the American squadron withdrew into its base.
Following the end of the war, General Pike was laid up at Sackett's Harbor. She was sold in 1825.
From- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_General_Pike_(1813)
Another example:
The Plunger class was an early class of United States Navy submarines, used primarily as training vessels for the newly formed "silent service" to familiarize navy personnel with the performance and operations of such craft. They were known as the "A-class" after being renamed to A-type designations (A-1 through A-7) on 17 November 1911. All except Plunger ended up being stationed in the Philippines, an American possession, prior to the outbreak of World War I. They were shipped there on colliers (coal-carrying ships). In some instances, this class of submarines is referred to as the Adder-class submarine, as USS Adder was the first boat of the class to be completed.[1]
The Plunger-class submarines were built at the beginning of the twentieth century largely as experimental vessels. This class of submarines was built at two different locations on both coasts of the United States. The five East Coast boats were based at New Suffolk, New York along with USS Holland (SS-1) until 1905, allowing New Suffolk to claim itself as the first submarine base in the United States.[2] They were given alphanumeric hull classification symbols (SS-2, SS-3, etc.) on 17 July 1920, after all but Grampus (SS-4) and Pike (SS-6) had been decommissioned. All of the Plunger-class ships were decommissioned by 1921 and used as targets. They were stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 January 1922 and sold for scrap.[3]
Boats[edit]
USS Plunger (SS-2) / A-1
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 2, SS-2 USS Plunger;0800206.jpg
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 21 May 1901
Launched: 1 February 1902 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 24 February 1913 (List)
Fate: Sold for scrap 26 January 1922
Operations: Torpedo testing, training, Theodore Roosevelt tour
USS Adder / A-2
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3, SS-3 USS Adder (SS-3).jpg
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 3 October 1900
Launched: 22 July 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 12 January 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Sunk as a target ship
Operations: Torpedo testing, training, peace time patrol
Plunger, Adder, Moccasin, Porpoise, and Shark.
USS Grampus / A-3
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3, SS-4 USS Grampus (SS-4).jpg
Builders: Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California
Laid down: 10 December 1900
Launched: 31 July 1902 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 28 May 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 25 July 1921 (List)
Fate: Struck 16 January 1922 and sunk as a target ship
Operations: San Francisco earthquake of 1906 relief efforts
A 1912 view of the breech of the sole torpedo tube of USS Moccasin / A-4. Two torpedoes are on wooden skids in the foreground. The skids slid across the deck for loading.
USS Moccasin / A-4
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5, SS-5 USS Moccasin (SS-5).jpg
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 8 November 1900
Launched: 20 August 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 17 January 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Target ship
Operations: Training, trials, peacetime patrol
USS Pike / A-5
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 6, SS-6 USS Pike (SS-6).jpg
Builders: Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California
Laid down: 10 December 1900
Launched: 14 January 1903 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 28 May 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 25 July 1921 (List)
Fate: Sold for scrap 26 January 1922
Operations: San Francisco earthquake of 1906 recovery efforts, training & trials, harbor patrol
USS Porpoise, A-6
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7, SS-7
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 13 December 1900
Launched: 23 September 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Target ship
Operations: Whiting experiment, other trials, harbor patrols
USS Shark, A-7
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8, SS-8
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 11 January 1901
Launched: 19 October 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Target ship
Operations: Torpedo and other trials, Manila Bay patrols
Builders: Electric Boat (design)
Crescent Shipyard (SS-2, -3, -5, -7, -8)
Union Iron Works (SS-4, SS-6)
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: USS Holland (SS-1)
Succeeded by: B-class submarine
Completed: 7
Retired: 7
Preserved: 0
General characteristics
Type: Training ship
Displacement: 107 tons
Length: 63 ft 10 in (19.46 m)
Beam: 11 ft 11 in (3.63 m)
Draft: 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m)
Propulsion: 1 × Otto gasoline engine, 160 bhp (120 kW)
1 × Electro Dynamic electric motor, 150 bhp (110 kW)
60-cell battery
1 shaft
Speed: 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (surfaced)
7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (submerged)
Test depth: 19 m (62 ft)
Armament: One 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tube (5 torpedoes)
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunger-class_submarine
Ship example instead of submarine:
The Montgomery-class cruisers were three unprotected cruisers built for the United States Navy in the early 1890s.[1] They had a thin protective and water-tight deck and relied for protection upon their cellulose packing and coal-bunkers; their numerous compartments provided roomy accommodations for officers and crew, these cruisers being mainly intended for long cruises on distant stations.[2]
Known initially as cruisers Nos. 9, 10, and 11, the Montgomery-class cruisers were authorized by an Act of Congress approved September 7, 1888.[2][3]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Montgomery-class ships
3 References
4 External links
History[edit]
As the U.S. Navy began to rebuild its fleet with steel-hulled vessels to keep pace with the advance of naval technology in the 1880s, it explored a wide range of conceptual designs. One of these was the "peace cruiser," a barely-armored vessel that amounted to a large gunboat, and in the 1888 naval appropriations bill, Congress set aside money to build three such vessels.[1][3]
In May 1889, the Department of the Navy invited proposals for the construction of three cruisers of about 2,000 tons displacement each, at a cost of not more than $700,000 each. When the bids were opened on August 22 of that year, Bath Iron Works and William Cramp & Sons submitted bids that were over the limit fixed by Congress in the act of September 1888, and it was decided to re-advertise for proposals. The revised terms reduced the required speed from 18 knots to 17 knots and set a premium for increased speed at $23,000 lor each quarter-knot in excess of the required speed of 17 knots; a penalty of $25,000 was set for every quarter-knot short of the required speed and in case of failure to develop and maintain a speed of 16 knots for four hours straight, the vessels could be rejected. The time fixed for completion was also extended from two years to two years and six mouths.[2]
Bath resubmitted a bid, Cramp and Sons dropped out and bids were also received from the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, N.F. Palmer jr. & Company of New York, Columbian Iron Works of Baltimore and Harrison Loring of Boston.[2]
On October 28, 1889 the Department awarded contracts to the Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Company for the construction of two of these cruisers (Montgomery and Detroit) for the sum of $612,500 each, and on November 1 it awarded to Harrison Loring the contract for the construction of the other cruiser (Marblehead) for the sum of $674,000. The ships built by Columbian were laid down in February 1890 and Marblehead was laid down in October 1890; Detroit was launched first, in October 1891; Montgomery was launched in December of that year and Marblehead the next August.[2]
Detroit was commissioned in July 1893, Marblehead in April 1894 and Montgomery in June 1894. In the years leading up to the Spanish-American War they spent the bulk of their service in Atlantic, Caribbean and European waters; during the Spanish-American War, they were actively employed in the North Atlantic and Caribbean.[2]
Detroit was decommissioned in August 1905 and sold in December 1910, but the other two continued in service through the First World War in patrol and training duty. Montgomery was renamed USS Anniston in March 1918, struck in August 1919 and sold in November of that year; Marblehead was decommissioned in August 1919, reclassified as a gunboat (PG-27) in July 1920 and sold in August 1921.[2]
In active service, the watertight deck of this class was more of a risk than a protection. Their stability was poor and, as remediation, the two 6 inches (150 mm) bow guns that were initially mounted were replaced by a single 4 inches (100 mm) gun and their apron shields removed.[2]
Montgomery-class ships[edit]
USS Montgomery (C-9)
USS Detroit (C-10)
USS Marblehead (C-11)
Class overview
Name: Montgomery-class unprotected cruiser
Builders: Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock, Baltimore; Harrison Loring, Boston
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Raleigh
Succeeded by: Columbia class
Planned: 3
Completed: 3
Scrapped: 3
General characteristics
Type: Unprotected cruiser
Displacement: 2,000 tons
Length: 257 ft (78 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Draft: 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 2,900 miles at 10 knots
Complement: 20 officers, 228 EM
Armament: 2 × 6 in (152 mm) quick-fire BLE, 8 × 4 in (102 mm) quick-fire BLR; (secondary) two 6-pounder, two 3-pounder, two revolving cannons, and one Gatling gun
6 × torpedo tubes
Armor: Protective deck: 5⁄16 in (8 mm) on the flat; 7⁄16 in (11 mm) on the slope; wing turrets and blockhouse: 2.2 in (56 mm); "Woodite" (cellulose) packed cofferdam: 3 ft 11 in (119 cm) height; no inner bottom
From- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery-class_cruiser
If want another example please do tell me.
I though would ask, anything that you want added or if you want to help, I would want to include all the specifications of the said "type" and also usage and production costs, maintence costs, etc.
So anyone willing to help me compile this list of "units/Weapons"? Even if you just suggest I would love to hear what you think the list wouldnt be complete without.
Example:
The sarissa, made of tough and resilient cornel wood, was very heavy for a spear, weighing approximately 5.5 kg (12 lb) for a 4.5 m (15 ft) sarissa and approximately 6.5 kg (14 lb) for an 5.5 m (18 ft) sarissa.[3] It had a sharp iron head shaped like a leaf and a bronze (to avoid rust) butt-spike that would allow it to be anchored to the ground to stop charges by enemy soldiers.[4] The butt-spike served to balance out the spear, making it easier for soldiers to wield. The butt-spike could be used as a back-up point should the main one break.
The sheer bulk and size of the spear required the soldiers to wield the spear with both hands, allowing them to carry only a 60 cm (24 in) shield (pelta) suspended from the neck to cover the left shoulder.[5] Its great length was an asset against hoplites and other soldiers bearing shorter weapons, because they had to get past the sarissas to engage the phalangites. However, outside the tight formation of the Phalanx the sarissa was useless as a weapon and a hindrance on the march. As such, it was usually composed of two lengths and was joined by a central bronze tube only before a battle.[6]
The invention of the sarissa is credited to Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Philip drilled his soldiers, whose morale was at first low, to use these formidable pikes with two hands. The new tactic was unstoppable, and by the end of Philip's reign the previously fragile northern Greek kingdom of Macedon, once of the Hellenised periphery, controlled the whole of Greece, and Thrace.
His son, Alexander, used the new tactic across Asia, conquering Egypt, Persia and the Pauravas (northwest India), victorious all the way. The sarissa-wielding phalanxes were vital in every early battle, including the pivotal battle of Gaugamela where the Persian king's scythe chariots were utterly destroyed by the phalanx, supported by the combined use of companion cavalry and peltasts (javelineers). During his later campaigning, Alexander gradually reduced the importance of the phalanx and the sarissa, as he modified his combined use of arms to incorporate 'Asian' weapons and troops, not specifically trained in Hellenistic battle tactics.
The sarissa, however, remained the backbone for every subsequent Hellenistic, and especially Diadochi army. The Battle of Raphia between the Seleucids and Ptolemy IV may represent the pinnacle of sarissa tactics, when only an elephant charge seemed able to disrupt the opposing phalanx. The Successor Kingdoms of Macedon's empire tried expanding upon the design, creating pikes as long as 6.75 m (22.1 ft), but all of these ideas were eventually abandoned in favor of the battle-tried Philipine-Alexandrian sarissa. Battles often ended up stalemated in what Oliver Cromwell later described as "the terrible business of push of pike".
Subsequently, a lack of training and too great a reliance on the Phalanx instead of the combined use of arms (Alexander's and Philip's great contributions) led to the final defeat of Macedon by the Romans at the Battle of Pydna. Part of the reason for the rapid deterioration of the sarissa's ability was that, after Alexander, generals ceased to protect phalanxes with cavalry and light-armed troops, and phalanxes were destroyed too easily by flank attacks owing to the sarissa's tactical unwieldiness. The sarissa was gradually replaced by variations of the gladius as the weapon of choice. Only Pyrrhus of Epirus was able to maintain a high standard of tactical handling with armies based around the sarissa, but with the dawn of the manipular system, even he struggled for his victories.
From- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarissa
More modern day example:
Name: USS General Pike
Namesake: Zebulon Pike (1779-1813)
Builder: Henry Eckford
Laid down: 9 April 1813
Launched: 12 June 1813
Fate: Sold, 1825
General characteristics
Type: Corvette
Tons burthen: 875 (bm)
Length: 145 ft (44.2 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11.3 m)
Depth: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 300 to 432 officers and enlisted
Armament: 28 × 24-pounder guns
She was named for Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, who was killed by an exploding enemy magazine at the Battle of York on 26 April 1813. The ship was laid down on 9 April 1813 at Sackets Harbor, New York by Henry Eckford, a New York City shipbuilder who supervised the construction of warships on Lake Ontario. The ship was roughly the same dimensions as the frigate USS Essex,[1] and the largest yet built on any of the Great Lakes.
From the outset, Commodore Isaac Chauncey, the American naval commander on the lakes, wanted the new ship to be armed with a broadside of long guns with longer range than the carronades mounted on most of the vessels of the opposing British squadron. General Pike was therefore fitted with 26 of the Pattern 1794 24-pounder long guns originally fitted to the USS Constitution, but since replaced.[1][2] Two of these guns were mounted on pivots on the topgallant forecastle (a platform above the forward gun deck) and the poop deck, and could fire on either broadside.
On 29 May, the British under Lieutenant General Sir George Prevost and Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo attacked Sacket's Harbor, intending to destroy General Pike before it could be launched. During the resulting battle of Sackett's Harbor, the Americans feared that the town was about to be captured and prematurely set fire to General Pike and vast quantities of stores. The British called off the attack at this point and the ship was saved, although $500,000 worth of materials had been destroyed.
General Pike was launched on 12 June. Master Commandant Arthur Sinclair was appointed to command. The fitting out and setting up of rigging was delayed by the loss of the stores during the earlier battle but the ship was made ready to sail by July and joined Chauncey's squadron on 21 July. From then until the end of the year, General Pike usually served as Chauncey's flagship. She sailed to the head of Lake Ontario, arriving off Niagara on 24 July. While cruising the lake, General Pike engaged British ships under Commodore Yeo in an indecisive battle on 10–11 August.
General Pike returned to Sackett's Harbor on 13 August and provisioned before returning to the head of the lake to search out British ships. After almost a month of manoeuvering and stalking to gain an advantage over the British, the ship was engaged in a brief encounter against the British off the mouth of the Genesee River on 11 September. On 28 September the two forces again met at York Bay, and engaged in a fierce, but ultimately still indecisive battle. As Chauncey had hoped and Yeo had feared, General Pike 's heavy broadside partly dismasted Yeo's flagship, the sloop of war Wolfe. The British squadron immediately fled downwind into Burlington Bay. The Americans could not overtake the British as many of the fastest American vessels were towing the slowest schooners to prevent them being left behind. General Pike was towing the schooner Asp and Chauncey refused to cast loose the tow during the chase. Chauncey called off the chase when the British anchored in Burlington Bay and the rising wind threatened to drive both squadrons onto the lee shore, which was British territory.
General Pike had inflicted heavy damage, but because the British fire had been concentrated on her, had also suffered severely. Wolfe had brought down her mizzen topmast and during the pursuit, the main topgallant mast had also fallen and the rigging of the foremast and bowsprit had been damaged. There were several hits below the waterline forward, and a cannon had exploded, killing or wounding twenty men and damaging the topgallant forecastle. Four other guns also were badly cracked and threatened to burst.[3]
After returning to Sackett's Harbor for repairs early in October, General Pike supported troop movements against the British at the lower end of Lake Ontario until mid-November when she returned to the Niagara Peninsula to cover the transfer of American troops from Fort Niagara to Sackett's Harbor. She remained at Sackett's Harbor during the winter months. Sinclair had received promotion to Captain during the year and asked for an independent command. He was later appointed to command on Lake Erie. His replacement in command of General Pike was Master Commandant William Crane.[4]
Throughout the remainder of the War of 1812, General Pike continued to operate with Chauncey's squadron, although no longer as flagship once Chauncey had commissioned two larger frigates. After the British withdrew blockading ships from Sackett's Harbor early in June 1814, General Pike joined other American ships in a counter-blockade of the British squadron at Kingston. The Americans kept Yeo's ships confined to Kingston harbor, and General Pike cruised Lake Ontario freely from the head of the St. Lawrence River to Sackett's Harbor until October, when the American squadron withdrew into its base.
Following the end of the war, General Pike was laid up at Sackett's Harbor. She was sold in 1825.
From- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_General_Pike_(1813)
Another example:
The Plunger class was an early class of United States Navy submarines, used primarily as training vessels for the newly formed "silent service" to familiarize navy personnel with the performance and operations of such craft. They were known as the "A-class" after being renamed to A-type designations (A-1 through A-7) on 17 November 1911. All except Plunger ended up being stationed in the Philippines, an American possession, prior to the outbreak of World War I. They were shipped there on colliers (coal-carrying ships). In some instances, this class of submarines is referred to as the Adder-class submarine, as USS Adder was the first boat of the class to be completed.[1]
The Plunger-class submarines were built at the beginning of the twentieth century largely as experimental vessels. This class of submarines was built at two different locations on both coasts of the United States. The five East Coast boats were based at New Suffolk, New York along with USS Holland (SS-1) until 1905, allowing New Suffolk to claim itself as the first submarine base in the United States.[2] They were given alphanumeric hull classification symbols (SS-2, SS-3, etc.) on 17 July 1920, after all but Grampus (SS-4) and Pike (SS-6) had been decommissioned. All of the Plunger-class ships were decommissioned by 1921 and used as targets. They were stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 16 January 1922 and sold for scrap.[3]
Boats[edit]
USS Plunger (SS-2) / A-1
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 2, SS-2 USS Plunger;0800206.jpg
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 21 May 1901
Launched: 1 February 1902 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 24 February 1913 (List)
Fate: Sold for scrap 26 January 1922
Operations: Torpedo testing, training, Theodore Roosevelt tour
USS Adder / A-2
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3, SS-3 USS Adder (SS-3).jpg
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 3 October 1900
Launched: 22 July 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 12 January 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Sunk as a target ship
Operations: Torpedo testing, training, peace time patrol
Plunger, Adder, Moccasin, Porpoise, and Shark.
USS Grampus / A-3
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 3, SS-4 USS Grampus (SS-4).jpg
Builders: Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California
Laid down: 10 December 1900
Launched: 31 July 1902 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 28 May 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 25 July 1921 (List)
Fate: Struck 16 January 1922 and sunk as a target ship
Operations: San Francisco earthquake of 1906 relief efforts
A 1912 view of the breech of the sole torpedo tube of USS Moccasin / A-4. Two torpedoes are on wooden skids in the foreground. The skids slid across the deck for loading.
USS Moccasin / A-4
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 5, SS-5 USS Moccasin (SS-5).jpg
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 8 November 1900
Launched: 20 August 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 17 January 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Target ship
Operations: Training, trials, peacetime patrol
USS Pike / A-5
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 6, SS-6 USS Pike (SS-6).jpg
Builders: Union Iron Works in San Francisco, California
Laid down: 10 December 1900
Launched: 14 January 1903 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 28 May 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 25 July 1921 (List)
Fate: Sold for scrap 26 January 1922
Operations: San Francisco earthquake of 1906 recovery efforts, training & trials, harbor patrol
USS Porpoise, A-6
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 7, SS-7
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 13 December 1900
Launched: 23 September 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Target ship
Operations: Whiting experiment, other trials, harbor patrols
USS Shark, A-7
Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8, SS-8
Builders: Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
Laid down: 11 January 1901
Launched: 19 October 1901 (List)
Operator: United States Navy
Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
Fate: Target ship
Operations: Torpedo and other trials, Manila Bay patrols
Builders: Electric Boat (design)
Crescent Shipyard (SS-2, -3, -5, -7, -8)
Union Iron Works (SS-4, SS-6)
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: USS Holland (SS-1)
Succeeded by: B-class submarine
Completed: 7
Retired: 7
Preserved: 0
General characteristics
Type: Training ship
Displacement: 107 tons
Length: 63 ft 10 in (19.46 m)
Beam: 11 ft 11 in (3.63 m)
Draft: 10 ft 7 in (3.23 m)
Propulsion: 1 × Otto gasoline engine, 160 bhp (120 kW)
1 × Electro Dynamic electric motor, 150 bhp (110 kW)
60-cell battery
1 shaft
Speed: 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (surfaced)
7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) (submerged)
Test depth: 19 m (62 ft)
Armament: One 18 in (457 mm) torpedo tube (5 torpedoes)
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunger-class_submarine
Ship example instead of submarine:
The Montgomery-class cruisers were three unprotected cruisers built for the United States Navy in the early 1890s.[1] They had a thin protective and water-tight deck and relied for protection upon their cellulose packing and coal-bunkers; their numerous compartments provided roomy accommodations for officers and crew, these cruisers being mainly intended for long cruises on distant stations.[2]
Known initially as cruisers Nos. 9, 10, and 11, the Montgomery-class cruisers were authorized by an Act of Congress approved September 7, 1888.[2][3]
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Montgomery-class ships
3 References
4 External links
History[edit]
As the U.S. Navy began to rebuild its fleet with steel-hulled vessels to keep pace with the advance of naval technology in the 1880s, it explored a wide range of conceptual designs. One of these was the "peace cruiser," a barely-armored vessel that amounted to a large gunboat, and in the 1888 naval appropriations bill, Congress set aside money to build three such vessels.[1][3]
In May 1889, the Department of the Navy invited proposals for the construction of three cruisers of about 2,000 tons displacement each, at a cost of not more than $700,000 each. When the bids were opened on August 22 of that year, Bath Iron Works and William Cramp & Sons submitted bids that were over the limit fixed by Congress in the act of September 1888, and it was decided to re-advertise for proposals. The revised terms reduced the required speed from 18 knots to 17 knots and set a premium for increased speed at $23,000 lor each quarter-knot in excess of the required speed of 17 knots; a penalty of $25,000 was set for every quarter-knot short of the required speed and in case of failure to develop and maintain a speed of 16 knots for four hours straight, the vessels could be rejected. The time fixed for completion was also extended from two years to two years and six mouths.[2]
Bath resubmitted a bid, Cramp and Sons dropped out and bids were also received from the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, N.F. Palmer jr. & Company of New York, Columbian Iron Works of Baltimore and Harrison Loring of Boston.[2]
On October 28, 1889 the Department awarded contracts to the Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Company for the construction of two of these cruisers (Montgomery and Detroit) for the sum of $612,500 each, and on November 1 it awarded to Harrison Loring the contract for the construction of the other cruiser (Marblehead) for the sum of $674,000. The ships built by Columbian were laid down in February 1890 and Marblehead was laid down in October 1890; Detroit was launched first, in October 1891; Montgomery was launched in December of that year and Marblehead the next August.[2]
Detroit was commissioned in July 1893, Marblehead in April 1894 and Montgomery in June 1894. In the years leading up to the Spanish-American War they spent the bulk of their service in Atlantic, Caribbean and European waters; during the Spanish-American War, they were actively employed in the North Atlantic and Caribbean.[2]
Detroit was decommissioned in August 1905 and sold in December 1910, but the other two continued in service through the First World War in patrol and training duty. Montgomery was renamed USS Anniston in March 1918, struck in August 1919 and sold in November of that year; Marblehead was decommissioned in August 1919, reclassified as a gunboat (PG-27) in July 1920 and sold in August 1921.[2]
In active service, the watertight deck of this class was more of a risk than a protection. Their stability was poor and, as remediation, the two 6 inches (150 mm) bow guns that were initially mounted were replaced by a single 4 inches (100 mm) gun and their apron shields removed.[2]
Montgomery-class ships[edit]
USS Montgomery (C-9)
USS Detroit (C-10)
USS Marblehead (C-11)
Class overview
Name: Montgomery-class unprotected cruiser
Builders: Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock, Baltimore; Harrison Loring, Boston
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Raleigh
Succeeded by: Columbia class
Planned: 3
Completed: 3
Scrapped: 3
General characteristics
Type: Unprotected cruiser
Displacement: 2,000 tons
Length: 257 ft (78 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Draft: 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m)
Speed: 18 knots (33 km/h)
Range: 2,900 miles at 10 knots
Complement: 20 officers, 228 EM
Armament: 2 × 6 in (152 mm) quick-fire BLE, 8 × 4 in (102 mm) quick-fire BLR; (secondary) two 6-pounder, two 3-pounder, two revolving cannons, and one Gatling gun
6 × torpedo tubes
Armor: Protective deck: 5⁄16 in (8 mm) on the flat; 7⁄16 in (11 mm) on the slope; wing turrets and blockhouse: 2.2 in (56 mm); "Woodite" (cellulose) packed cofferdam: 3 ft 11 in (119 cm) height; no inner bottom
From- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery-class_cruiser
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