Continuing with the last story, the SUV camp did not know much about the cannon until member Bill Stillman did some research and found out it was from the frigate USS Sabine, one of the last sailing vessels commissioned by the US Navy. It carried 49 cannons and a crew of 375.
It saw service during the Civil War until it became a training ship in 1864. It was decommissioned and scrapped in 1880.
In 1910, Michigan Senator William Alden Smith donated it to the county.
MORE ON THE USS SABINE
From wikipedia. The vessel was started in 1822, but not completed in the New York Navy Yard until 1855 and commissioned in 1858. It cruised to South America after the USS Water Witch was fired on by Paraguay. During the Civil War, it cruised along the east coast after participating in the relief of Fort Pickens, Florida.
The Water Witch was captured by Confederates during the war and has recently been located in Georgia. A full-size waterlevel replica of it is being built at the Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia.
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The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
