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USS Independence (II)

1913 International Radio Call Sign:
Nan - Have - Fox NHF

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal

Ship-of-the-Line:

Laid down, date unknown, at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA.

Launched, 22 June 1814

Commissioned USS Independence, date unknown, CAPT. William Crane in command

Placed in ordinary in 1822

Razeed (cut down) to one covered fighting deck with poop and forecastle in 1836, re-rated as a 54 gun Frigate

Recommissioned, 26 March 1837

Laid up in ordinary, 30 March 1840, at New York

Recommissioned, 14 May 1842

Laid up in ordinary, 30 May 1849

Recommissioned, 7 July 1849

Placed in ordinary, 3 July 1852, at New York

Recommissioned, 4 September 1854

Entered Mare Island Navy Yard, 2 October 1857 to serve as the yards receiving ship

Decommissioned, 19 November 1912

Struck from the Naval Register, 3 September 1913, and laid up at Hunter's Point until 28 November 1914

Sold to John H. Kinder, towed to Union Iron Works, San Francisco

Final Disposition, burned on the mud flats at Hunter's Point to recover her metal fittings

Specifications:
Displacement 2,243 t.
Length 190' 10"
Beam 54' 7"
Draft 24' 4"
Speed unknown
Complement 790

Armament

Ship-of-the-Line - ninety 32-pounder guns

Frigate - fifty-four 32-pounder guns

Propulsion sail

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	512k	Ship-of-the-Line USS Independence master sail plan, circa 1814. From "History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and There Development" by Howard I. Chappelle.	Robert Hurst
	254k	In the spring of 1814, Charles Goullet, Master's Mate of the British 38-gun frigate HMS Nymphe entered the port of Boston in a boat with six other persons for the purpose of destroying the United States ship of the line USS Independence then but recently launched. Having pulled past a whole tier of heavy batteries, the little band of adventurers entered the inner harbor, where they boarded a schooner, which they quickly fitted out as a fire ship, and then sent blazing in the direction of *Independence* It now being daylight and the harbor being in a state of commotion, they were obliged to make off with all speed, pursued by a number of boats from whom, as well as the batteries, they contrived to escape in safety. US National Archives photo # USN 902802	US Naval History and Heritage Command
098654913	112k	Print by George G.Smith (1795-1878) engraver George Girdler Smith of the United States squadron under Com. Bainbridge returning triumphant from the Mediterranean in 1815, The print shows the American squadron at sea, includes, on the left; USS Macedonian (I), USS Firefly (I), USS Torch, USS Boxer (I), at center, USS Independence, USS Spark (I), USS Saranac (I) USS Enterprise (III), USS Lynx (i), and on the right, USS Congress (III) USS Chippewa (II), USS Spitfire (III) and USS Flambeau. United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a47975	Robert Hurst
	299k	Painting of the Ship-of-the-Line USS Independence underway in 1836. Artist unknown. Photo from Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration, ARC Identifier 512951.	Robert Hurst
	204k	Lithograph of USS Independence bearing the broad pennant of Como. Charles Stewart, struck by a squall off America, 8 September 1842. Kellogg Brothers, lithographers.	Robert Hurst
	267k	Painting of USS Independence under full sail, after the Ship-of-the-Line was cut down to a 54 gun frigate. Artist, RADM J. W. Schmidt for *USS Independence* (CVA-62)*. Painting signed by Artist. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo KN-831.*	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	117k	Print showing USS Independence at Mare Island Navy Yard, 11 November 1853.	Fred Stahl
	142k	USS Independence entering drydock #1 at Mare Island Navy Yard, CA., 30 October 1886. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 53107	Mike Green
	84k	View looking along the waterfront of Mare Island Navy Yard during the 1870s, with the city of Vallejo on the opposite side of the channel. Ships tied up at the Navy Yard include USS Saranac (left), USS Independence (center), and a Revenue Cutter (right center). Moored offshore are USS California (left) and USS Pensacola (left center). The yard's floating drydock is in the right distance US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 68685, from the William H. Topley collection. Courtesy of Charles M. Loring, 1969.	Robert Hurst
	1843k	USS Independence is moored astern of USS Pensacola, moored at the quay wall, at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., mid photo in 1897. USS Mohican is in dry dock #1 (you can see her masts and bow). *USS Philadelphia* (C-4)** is moored in the channel. File name Mohican 1897-01, Navy Photo, November 1987	Darryl Baker
	656k	Mare Island Navy Yard, September-October 1889. Ships present: USS Monongahela, outboard of, USS Monadnock (under construction), USS Albatross, USC&GS Carlisle P. Patterson, *USS Charleston* (C-2)** (being outfitted), Floating dry dock and USS Independence (Receiving Ship) Ships in the channel (left to right) USS Alert and USS Thetis. US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum	Darryl Baker and Robb Johnson
	58k	USS Independence moored at the quay wall, at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., circa 1890s as either *USS Concord* (Gunboat # 3) or USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)** steam by. US Navy photo # NH 7055, courtesy of the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1970.	Robert Hurst
	148k	USS Independence at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., circa 1890s. in the 1890s. Detroit Publishing Co. US Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division, digital ID det.4a14238.	Robert Hurst
	264k	The receiving ship USS Independence is in the background of this stern view of USS Fortune at Mare Island, 23 July 1904. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 374, 7/23/04	Darryl Baker
094690209	273k	Prison ship USS Manila at the head of the pier in Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., where the Norwegian exploring ship *Gjoa* sits on the mud inboard of the receiving ship USS Independence which was proving security. *GJoa's crew returned to Norway leaving their ship behind with an unknown future, circa 1907. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 51106*	Darryl Baker
	571k	Honorable Discharge Certificate issued to Fred H. Taylor, 18 July 1909 aboard the Mare Island Navy Yard receiving ship USS Independence. Taylor's real was Henry Franz Johann Tramp, he enlisted under the name of Fred H. Taylor at age 16.	Robert Hurst
	81k	The receiving ship USS Independence Navy Yard Mare Island, circa 1912. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 67834	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	42k	Receiving ship USS Independence moored at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., prior to her decommissioning in 1912. Photo from Treasure Island Museum , from Warship Boneyards", by Kit and Carolyn Bonner.	Robert Hurst
	97k	The receiving ship USS Independence Navy Yard Mare Island, circa 1913. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 52629	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	128k	The receiving ship USS Independence off the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA., circa early 1900s. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 52631	US Naval History and Heritage Command
	72k	The receiving ship USS Independence Navy Yard Mare Island, 18 July 1913. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # MINSY BK 622 07	Darryl Baker
	37k	USS Independence serving as receiving ship at Mare Island Navy Yard, circa 1908.	Paul Petosky
	252k	Hand colored post card image of Receiving Ship USS Independence at Navy Yard Mare Island, circa 1912-13. Frank J. Stumm, Publisher, Benecia, CA.	Tommy Trampp
	320k	Ex-USS Independence being dismantled at Hunters Point, San Francisco, California, circa 1919 US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 52623	US Naval History and Heritage Command