Introduction, Official Records, 1861

Vessels of War List

United State Official Register 1861

Navy

Sloops of War

NAME

GUNS

TONS

BUILT

YEAR

SITUATIONWHERE
Cumberland 24 1,726 Charlestown 1842 In commission Atlantic Block'g Squadron
Savannah 24 1,726 Brooklyn 1842          do                  do
Constellation 22 1,452 Rebuilt, Gosport* 1854 In ordinary Portsmouth, N. H.
Macedonian 22 1,341 Gosport 1836 In commission Gulf Blockading Squadron
Portsmouth 22 1,022 Kittery 1843 In ordinary Portsmouth, N. H.
St. Mary's 22    958 Washington 1844 Washington Pacific Squadron
Jamestown 22    985 Gosport 1844          do Atlantic Block'g Squadron
Saratoga 20    882 Kittery 1842          do Coast of Africa
John Adams 20    700 Rebuilt, Gosport 1831          do East Indies
Vincennes 20    700 Brooklyn 1826          do Gulf Blockading Squadron
Vandalia 20    783 Philadelphia 1828 In ordinary Atlantic Block'g Squadron
St. Louis 20    700 Washington 1828 In commission Gulf Blockading Squadron
Cyane 20    792 Charlestown 1837          do Pacific Squadron
Decatur 16

566

Brooklyn 1839 In ordinary San Francisco
Marion 16

566

Charlestown 1839 In commission Gulf Blockading Squadron
Dale 16

566

Philadelphia 1839          do Atlantic Block'g Squadron
Preble 16

566

Kittery 1839          do Gulf Blockading Squadron

* Gosport was the original name of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard