USS Ticonderoga (1863)
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| Name: | USS Ticonderoga |
| Builder: | New York Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 1861 |
| Launched: | 16 October 1862 |
| Commissioned: | 12 May 1863 |
| Decommissioned: | 5 May 1865 |
| Recommissioned: | 1866 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 October 1874 |
| Recommissioned: | 5 November 1878 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 September 1882 |
| Fate: | Sold, 5 August 1887 |
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| Type: | Screw sloop-of-war |
| Displacement: | 2,526 long tons (2,567 t) |
| Length: | 237 ft (72 m) |
| Beam: | 38 ft 2 in (11.63 m) |
| Draft: | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
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The second USS Ticonderoga was a 2526-ton Lackawanna-class screw sloop-of-war laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1861; launched on 16 October 1862; sponsored by Miss Katherine Heaton Offley; and commissioned at New York on 12 May 1863, Commodore J. L. Lardner in command.
Ticonderoga went south on 5 June 1863 for duty as flagship of the West Indies Squadron and, after stopping at Philadelphia, arrived at Cape Haitien on 12 June. She patrolled waters off the Virgin Islands, Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, and Curaçao protecting Union commerce. Ticonderoga returned to Philadelphia for repairs in September. She was relieved as flagship of the squadron in October and sent to the Boston Navy Yard.
Operating out of Boston, Ticonderoga searched unsuccessfully off Nova Scotia for the captured steamer Chesapeake from 11 to 16 December. In June 1864, she hunted Confederate commerce raiders off the New England coast, putting into Portland harbor, Maine, on 26 June. There, Ticonderoga received a telegram on 10 July ordering her to track down and destroy the marauding Confederate raider CSS Florida. Her search lasted until October and carried Ticonderoga as far south as Cabo São Roque (Cape San Roque), Brazil, but was stopped because of mechanical troubles and insufficient fuel. She returned to Philadelphia late in October.
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