USS Gettysburg 



An iron-huUed, screw, steamer built in 1858 at Glasgow, 

 Scotland and originally named Douglass, then Margaret and 

 Jessie. She was captured as a blockade runner in 1863 and 

 purchased the following year by the Navy from the New York 

 Prize Court and renamed Gettysburg. Following her service in the 

 Civil War, she assisted in the laying of a telegraph cable from Key 

 West to Havana in 1868. Between 1873 and 1875 she supported 

 the survey teams and engineers engaged in seeking routes for an 



inter-oceanic canal. In 1876 she conducted surveys for the 

 Hydrographic Office in the Caribbean and from 1877 to 1879 

 she was assigned special duty to the Mediterranean to obtain 

 navigational information about coasts and islands of the area. 

 Following her two year Mediterranean survey expedition, 

 Gettysburg was sold in 1879. 



Length: 221' Displacement: 950 tons 



USS Jamestown 



A sloop-of-war built in 1844 at Gosport, Virginia. From 1876 to assigned to survey the harbor of Sitka, Alaska. She was 

 1879, she operated in the Hawaiian Islands as a State Public destroyed by fire at Norfolk Navy Yard in January 1913. 

 Marine SchooL Returned to the Navy in 1879, Jamestown was Length: 163' 6" Displacement: 1,150 tons 



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