Hernando deSoto (/də ˈsoʊtoʊ/; Spanish: [eɾˈnando ðeˈsoto]; c. 1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions...
USSDeSoto County (LST-1171) was a DeSoto County-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during the late 1950s. The lead ship of her...
De Soto, DeSoto, Desoto, or deSoto may also refer to: Populated places DeSoto, Georgia DeSoto, Illinois DeSoto, Iowa DeSoto, Kansas DeSoto, Mississippi...
USS General Lyon, originally the DeSoto, was recaptured from the Confederate States of America and renamed USSDeSoto, and then USS General Lyon, after...
launching. USS LST-1 USS LST-2 USS LST-3 USS LST-4 USS LST-5 USS LST-6 USS LST-7 USS LST-8 USS LST-9 USS LST-10 — converted to USS Achelous (ARL-1) USS LST-11...
1861, and in Marseille was the subject of a painting, possibly by Honoré de Pellegrin, a well-known maritime artist of the Marseilles School. In 1863...
succession of U.S. Navy warships, among them the sloop-of-war USS Kearsarge and the gunboat USS Chippewa. Semmes and many of his officers were reassigned...
15.2 m (50 ft). A US Navy ship which had arrived the day before, the USSDeSoto, was ripped from her moorings and beached. The second wave then brought...
USS LCS(L)(3)-1 USS LCS(L)(3)-2 USS LCS(L)(3)-3 USS LCS(L)(3)-4 USS LCS(L)(3)-5 USS LCS(L)(3)-6 USS LCS(L)(3)-7 USS LCS(L)(3)-8 USS LCS(L)(3)-9 USS LCS(L)(3)-10...
cancelled. USS LST-1 USS LST-5 USS LST-10 USS LST-11 USS LST-12 USS LST-15 USS LST-16 USS LST-17 USS LST-18 USS LST-19 USS LST-20 USS LST-21 USS LST-22 USS LST-23...
from Havana, Cuba, toward Mobile, Alabama, by Union blockading schooner USSDeSoto 17 August 1863. Taken to Key West, Florida, under a prize crew, Nita...
the Caribbean, but in 1851 it added a new route between Southampton and Rio de Janeiro. This growing trade, and a number of ships lost at sea, created a...
commerce raider CSS Alabama out of French territorial waters to her fight with USS Kearsarge. While assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet, the ship made a port...
USS Hendrick Hudson was a schooner-rigged screw steamer. Hendrick Hudson was built as Florida in 1859 at Greenpoint, New York. She was taken into the...
rations and water landed in Taiwan under Commander George Belknap of the USS Hartford who was accompanied by Lieutenant Commander Alexander Slidell MacKenzie...
as USSDeSoto and later renamed USS General Lyon. CSS Emily Murray | Confederate States Navy | 9 February 1863 Confederate schooner captured by USS Coeur...