USS Nipsic was a gunboat in the Union Navy. The ship was laid down on 24 December 1862 by Portsmouth Navy Yard; launched on 15 June 1863; sponsored by Miss Rebecca Scott; and commissioned on 2 September 1863, Lieutenant Commander George Bacon in command.[citation needed]
In 1874 she was rebuilt as a new, and substantially larger, Adams/Enterprise-class gunboat. The Navy rebuilt some ships to new, when they could not get budget authorization for a new ship, but had significant funding for repairs. She would also be completely rebuilt in 1890 her length and beam extended and her tonnage increased.
USSNipsic was a gunboat in the Union Navy. The ship was laid down on 24 December 1862 by Portsmouth Navy Yard; launched on 15 June 1863; sponsored by...
USS Port Royal (1862) USS Sebago (1861) USS Sonoma (1862) USS Tioga (1862) USS Kansas (1863) USS Maumee (1864) USSNipsic (1863) USS Nyack (1863) USS Pequot (1863)...
three U.S. Navy warships (the sloop-of-war USS Vandalia, the screw steamer USS Trenton, and the gunboat USSNipsic) and three German warships (the gunboats...
web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Reh, Louise (1991). Nipsic to Nimitz. Bremerton, Washington: Puget Sound Navy Museum Foundation. p...
before being rescued, by which time 43 of her complement had drowned. USSNipsic was thrown high on the beach with eight of her crew missing or dead and...
crew. The 1889 incident involved three American warships, USS Vandalia, USS Trenton and USSNipsic and three German warships, SMS Adler, SMS Olga, and SMS...
the United States Navy gunboat USSNipsic, the U.S. Navy screw steamer USS Trenton, and the U.S. Navy sloop-of-war USS Vandalia on 16 March 1889 in a...
2 November 1842, 3 killed USS Constellation (1854) USS Cyane (1837) USS Dale (1839) USS Decatur (1839) USS Eagle (1812) USS Epervier (1814), lost in July...
continued this duty until 30 April 1872, when she was relieved by the steamer USSNipsic. Departing Samana Bay on 5 June, she sailed for Key West arriving on 8...
first medical service at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard began aboard USSNipsic in 1895. Assistant Surgeon General James Stoughton set up Sick Quarters...
battery abandoned and its guns spiked. The sloop-of-war USS Pawnee and the gunboat USSNipsic continued up the bay and landed a party of Marines to take...
relieved of command of the Asiatic Squadron flagship, the protected cruiser USS Olympia, following the American victory in the Battle of Manila Bay on 1...
from that state. By January 18, 1886, he was serving as a landsman on the USS Ranger. On that day, while Ranger was off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico,...
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