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Article: VALIANT HARTFORD MET A SAD AND FIERY END IN 1957.(LOCAL)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1999
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: George Tucker
It was a violent contrast - from having been the victorious flagship of Adm. David Glasgow Farragut at the capture of New Orleans, the bombardment of Vicksburg and the battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War to winding up as a rotting hulk at the St. Helena Annex of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth. But that, in brief, was the history of the Hartford, one of the U.S. Navy's most historic warships.
Built at the Boston Navy Yard, the Hartford, a 225-foot, 2,900-ton wooden vessel with auxiliary steam power and named for Hartford, Conn., was launched into the icy waters of the Charles River in November 1858. Later, a ...
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