USS Pocahontas may refer to one of the following United States Navy ships honoring Pocahontas, the Algonquian Indian daughter of Powhatan and wife of American colonist and Virginia tobacco grower John Rolfe:
USS Pocahontas (1852), a screw steamer purchased by the Navy at Boston 20 March 1855; commissioned as Despatch 17 January 1856, and renamed Pocahontas on 27 January 1860.
USS Pocahontas (AT-18), an ocean tug renamed Chemung 1 September 1917.
USS Pocahontas (ID-3044), the German vessel Princess Irene, seized by the United States in 1917, which served as a troop transport during World War I.
USS Pocahontas (YT-266), a tug transferred to Naval service in December 1942.
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USSPocahontas may refer to one of the following United States Navy ships honoring Pocahontas, the Algonquian Indian daughter of Powhatan and wife of...
that Pocahontas's mother was the first wife of Powhatan and that Pocahontas was named after her. According to colonist William Strachey, "Pocahontas" was...
after the river in New York State. USS Chemung (AT-18), an ocean tug built and launched in 1917 as USSPocahontas. USS Chemung (AO-30), commissioned in...
was recommissioned as USSPocahontas in 1860, served in the American Civil War, and was decommissioned a final time in 1865 USS Despatch (1873), a screw...
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...
of Quantico Creek. On July 7, 1861, she was damaged by gunfire from USSPocahontas. George Page was destroyed by her crew upon abandonment of the Evansport...
Battle of Port Royal, Union Navy Commander Percival Drayton of the USSPocahontas battled Confederate forces on shore commanded by his brother General...
service. In the fall of 1861, Drayton was placed in command of the gunboat Pocahontas; he participated in the capture of Port Royal, South Carolina. His older...
been held at Fort Pocahontas. In 2005, many scenes of the motion picture The New World were filmed on-location at Fort Pocahontas, as well at other places...
discharge in November 1919, he returned to the United States aboard USSPocahontas. Early in the interwar period, he attended the dedication of the Liberty...
Forrest De Witt Clinton Fort Bibliography of Nathan Bedford Forrest USSPocahontas (1852) For a one-dimensional yet telling account of the political and...
jurisdiction. On April 26, Capt. Henry W. Morris sent ashore Marines from the USSPocahontas to raise the U.S. flag over the mint. Morris did so without any order...
Kaohsiung, Taiwan SS Pennsylvania (1896) 1896 USS Nansemond (1919–1924) Scrapped in 1924 USSPocahontas (ID-3044) 1900 SS Prinzess Irene (1900–1917) Bremen...
Walker came under attack by ships of the Union Navy, including the USSPocahontas, commanded by his brother, Percival Drayton. Thomas Drayton's son, Lieutenant...
2013, p. 162. Newark 2007, p. 78. Taylor, Alan (8 June 2014). "18. The USSPocahontas, a U.S. Navy transport ship, photographed in Dazzle camouflage, in 1918"...
Carolina) for further training. In November 1917, the regiment boarded the USSPocahontas, destined for France, although shortly thereafter the ship returned...
two other ex-German liners were renamed USSPocahontas (ID-3044) and USS Powhatan (ID-3013)—after Pocahontas and Powhatan (her father)—this seems the...
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