Article: VALIANT HARTFORD MET A SAD AND FIERY END IN 1957.(LOCAL)

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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