USS Ticonderoga ( 1862 ) 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 . Service history . Civil War , 1863 – 1865 . " 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 . " Ticonderoga " left Philadelphia bound for Hampton Roads , Virginia , on 31 October . She was assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 4 November and deployed off Wilmington , North Carolina . " Ticonderoga " participated in the first , unsuccessful attempt to take Fort Fisher , North Carolina , on 24 and 25 December , losing eight men killed and 20 wounded on the first day of the assault when a 100 - pounder Parrott rifle exploded . A landing party from " Ticonderoga " assisted in the capture of the fort on 15 January 1865 , during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher . " Ticonderoga " joined the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 19 January . After a brief tour of duty , she left for Philadelphia in March and was decommissioned there on 5 May . Medals of Honor . The following crewmen of the USS " Ticonderoga " were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Civil War : 1866 – 1874 . " Ticonderoga " was recommissioned for service with the European Squadron in 1866 . She remained with the Squadron through 1869 , visiting ports in the Mediterranean , on the Continent , and along the English and African coasts . The vessel was extensively repaired in 1870 and reported for duty with the South Atlantic Squadron at Rio de Janeiro on 23 August 1871 . After over two years of service on the coast of South America , she was reassigned to the North Atlantic Squadron in January 1874 . The ship was decommissioned at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery , Maine , on 24 October and remained laid up there until 1877 . 1878 – 1882 . " Ticonderoga " was recommissioned on 5 November 1878 and ordered to embark upon a cruise around the world , Commodore Robert W . Shufeldt commanding . The expedition was of a commercial nature , intended to expand existing trade relations and establish new ones . " Ticonderoga " sailed eastward from Hampton Roads on 7 December and stopped at ports including Madeira , Monrovia , Cape Town , Aden , Bombay , Penang , Singapore , Manila , Hong Kong , Nagasaki , Fusan , Honolulu , and San Francisco . " Ticonderoga " arrived at Mare Island , California , for extensive repairs on 9 November 1880 . During the two - year mission , she had visited over 40 ports and steamed in excess of 36 , 000 miles without a mishap . She left Mare Island in March 1881 and returned to New York on 23 August . She was decommissioned there a final time on 10 September 1882 and declared unfit for further service . " Ticonderoga " was sold at Boston on 5 August 1887 to Thomas Butler & Company . 2012 . Ticonderoga ' s bell is currently on display at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle , Detroit , Michigan .