Model of Sloop of War USS<i>Jamestown</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1844
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: The USS <i>Jamestown</i> was built in 1844/45 at Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia. It measured 157 feet 6 inches in length, 35 feet in width, and 16 feet 2 inches in depth of hold. One of the last sloops built for the old sailing navy, it was the largest of a class of 7 and carried four 8-inch Paxihan Shell guns and eighteen 32-pounders. Its first cruise was to the coast of Africa, where it served as flagship for Commodore Charles Skinner in the suppression of the slave trade. In 1847 she and Macedonian delivered food to Ireland to help ease the hunger caused by the potato blight. During the Civil War, <i>Jamestown</i> was assigned to the Atlantic Blockading Squadron. It captured several ships during her service there. It cruised various other places including South America, Hawaii, Alaska, and France. It was transferred to the Treasury Department, and used as a quarantine ship, it was destroyed by a fire in Norfolk Navy Yard in 1913.
label: Description
content: The rigged model is plank-on-frame and open below the water line. It has open and exposed deck and hull framing as well as planked sides, with contrasting light and dark planks on raised niches at bow and stern. there is a carved eagle at the stern.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Maritime
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of CIGNA Museum and Art Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0279.087
label: accession number
content: 2005.0279
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0279.087
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ship model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 in x 63 in x 18 in; 104.14 cm x 160.02 cm x 45.72 cm