The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-06-09
WAR SLOOP JAMESTOWN
She Will Be at the Jamestown
Exposition Sure
Now In the United States rlarine
Hospital Service-Fier Guns No Lon
ger Trained on SewelPs Point,
Where the Big Exposition Is To Be
Given,

ANOIiOlh, l. CdCCluI ttuu OCuC-
iicent, the United States sloop of war
jamestown lies off Sewell'S Point,
where multitude of men are building
the Jamestown Exposition to COM
memOrate the birth of the nation at
Jamestown.
Exactly fOrty-fOur years ago this
famous war SlOop lay in the same spot
and threw shot from her twenty guns
at the Notifications thrown up by the
ConfederateS on the beautiful spot
where the Exposition is now rapidly
assuming shape. Peaceful and Smil-
ing with beauty as the scene now is,
it requires an effort of the magma
tion to recall the unhappy days of
yOre.
The SlOop jamestown is now in the
marine hospital service as quarantine
station, and has been anchored for
several years where she now lies.
Peaceful old age has succeeded her
fiery youth, when she was one OF Uncle
Sans fighters and gave good ac-
count of herself. Visitors to the
jamestown Exposition will desire to
know something of the interesting his
tory Of the Slo0p Of war, jamestown.
She was built at the Norfolk navy
yard and launched in 1914 and on the
25th Of January sailed on her maiden
voyage, bound for the African station
and under command of r. b. Cunning
ham.
She mounted 20 guns, was OF l.150
register, 163 feet long, with 81 foot
beam. Her armament was changed in
1851 and twenty fear-inSpiring mon
SterS were put aboard and their noses
pOked through her ports. Fourteen
of these each threw 32-pOund shot
and six of them were 8-inch smooth
bores. In March, 1647, when famine
was raging in Ireland she sailed from
Boston, conveying full cargo of food
StuffS, the gift of America TO the Irish
people.
In July, 1853, the JameSton was at
Havana, as the naval records recite,
to resist the right of search by Brit
iSh." In October of the same year
she was at Graytown, Nicaragua,
searching for filibuSters who, under |
command of General Walker, s. aght |,
On June Is, 1861, the jamestown was
recommiSSioned at Norfolk and stood
to sea on June 18th. She was off |
Charleston, S. c., on August and
chased, ran ashore and burned the
bark Alvanado. She captured the
schooner Charles Aigburth on August |
81 and captured, diSmantled and Scut-
tied the schooner Charles Long on
September 4th. She put in at New
York City in September, '6l, and
stood to sea thence on December Is,
under the head of unfinished business,
capturing the sioop, Havel0ck, and
on May L, 1862, captured the prize
brig Intended. Then she came back
to Hampton Roads, within few miles
of her native home, and threw shot
at the ConfederateS on SeWell's Point.
Many of these missiles have been dug
up since the eXcavating for the EX-
position buildings began.
The jamestown was nursery for
admira'S. At times during her long
lifetime men whose names are famous
in our naval history sailed in her. w.
t. TruXtn commanded her 10 1869
Charles N.\Gridley in 1864, Henry
Glass in 1880 a. ID. Brown in 1882,
Bancroft Gheardi in 1870, s. b. Luce
in 1883, Z. j. Frain in 1886, b. II.
LambertSon in 1889, c. i. Goodrich
in 1891 and otEe honored names are
linked with hsrs. Representative
Harry L. MAYNARD, of the Norfolk dis
trlct, has set his heart upon having a
WaNhlp bGiit at TIE Norfolk navy
yard during the Jamestown Exposi-
tionA He has asked the Congress to
let Norfolk build another warship.
Whlchhe will nalne Jamestown.
TheNoop-Of-war jamestown receiy-
ed AlaAFt from the Gar Of the Rus
slams am put the Stars and Stripes
over thaApiece of the frozen north
which Secretary Seward had lust
bought ff'h the Car.
The jamstow Oh October S. 1867.
lay in tie \arbor OF Sitka. while
The l;n">iaAhlg was hanled down
and the AneEun flag was hoisted on
the governmeh house "
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