USS Fredonia (1845)
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 United States
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| Laid down: | date unknown |
| Launched: | 1845 |
| Acquired: | 14 December 1846 |
| Commissioned: | 5 January 1847 |
| Decommissioned: | 18 January 1851 |
| In service: | 1852 |
| Out of service: | 13 August 1868 |
| Struck: | 1868 (est.) |
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| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 800 |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 11 in (10.03 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Propulsion: | sail |
| Speed: | varied |
| Complement: | 37 |
| Armament: | four 24-pounder Carronades |
USS Fredonia (1845) was an 800-ton bark that served the U.S. Navy as a transport and as a storeship. After several voyages to California by way of Cape Horn, she became the station warehouse in Arica, Chile, where she was destroyed by an earthquake.
Fredonia, built in 1845 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, was purchased at Boston, Massachusetts, 14 December 1846 for $52,000. The vessel was fitted out as a storeship and on 5 January 1847 was placed in commission under command of Lieutenant C. W. Chauncey.
Assigned to the Home Squadron, Fredonia sailed from Boston 9 January 1847 for the east coast of Mexico. On 16 February she arrived off Anton Lizardo where she remained until October, rendering assistance to vessels in distress and performing duty as guard ship while dispensing provisions, wood, water, ordnance equipment, and ammunition to the squadron of Commodores David Conner and Matthew C. Perry engaged in the bombardment and occupation of Vera Cruz, Tuxpan, and Tabasco, Mexico.
Before sailing for home on 8 October Fredonia embarked invalids from the squadron and men whose enlistments had expired for transportation to New York City, where she arrived 22 November. The storeship made one more trip to the Gulf of Mexico with supplies for the squadron before the end of the Mexican-American War, departing New York 9 January 1848 and arriving off Sacrificios 9 February. She sailed for home in June, via Pensacola, Florida, to land hospital supplies from Salmadina, and on 23 July arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, to disembark a battalion of U.S. Marines and invalids from the Gulf Squadron.
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