LC control no. | n 86111135 |
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Corporate name heading | Kearsarge (Sloop) |
Variant(s) | USS Kearsarge U.S.S. Kearsarge |
Found in | NUCMC data from N.J. Hist. Soc. for Whittaker, J.W. Letters, 1859-1870 (U.S. steamer Kearsarge) Dict. of Am. Naval Fighting Ships, 1959 (ScSlp Kearsarge [Screw sloop-of-war]; Kearsarge is a mountain in Merrimack Co., N.H.; first Kearsarge launched 1861; in 1864 had battle with Confederate raider Alabama near Cherbourg Harbor, France; decomm. and recomm. several times; final recomm. in 1888; wrecked off Roncador Reef in Central Am. in 1894; unsalvageable; struck from Navy list) |