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For Full Size Image Size Image Description Source 69k Drawing of USS Vandalia during Commodore Perry's opening up of Japan in 1854.
Courtesy naval-history.net web site. Bill Gonyo
098634708 327k Sketch by F. Muller of USS Vandalia underway.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 43851 Robert Hurst 158k Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861, pages 456-457, depicting a large number of Navy ships off the New York Navy Yard, early in the Civil War. Vessels shown include (from left to right): USS Montgomery;
USS Vandalia;
USS Brandywine;
USS North Carolina;
USS Potomac;
USS Savannah;
USS R.R. Cuyler;
USS Mount Vernon;
USS Roanoke;
USS Resolute
and USS Wabash. A rowing launch is underway in the foreground.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 59308 Bill Gonyo 117k "The Blockade of Charleston".
A line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861, page 599, probably depicting the capture of the blockade runner Arthur Middleton, off Charleston, S.C., 21 August 1861. Arthur Middleton is shown in the center of the view, flying a Confederate flag. USS Vandalia is at left, and USS Roanoke is at right.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 59302. Robert Hurst 75k "Bombardment and Capture of Port Royal, South Carolina, 7 November 1861" Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, pages 760-761. It depicts Federal warships, under Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, USN, bombarding Fort Beauregard (at right) and Fort Walker (at left). The Confederate squadron commanded by Commodore Josiah Tattnall is in the left center distance. Subjects identified below the image bottom are (from left): tug Mercury,
Fort Walker,
USS Wabash (DuPont's flagship),
steamer Screamer (?),
USS Susquehanna,
CSS Huntsville, Commo. Tattnall, (probably misidentified as no record exists that CSS Huntsville served in the defenses of Port Royal, S.C.
USS Bienville,
USS Pembina,
USS Seneca,
USS Ottawa,
USS Unadilla,
USS Pawnee,
USS Mohican,
USS Isaac Smith,
USS Curlew; (probably misidentified as no record exists that USS Curlew served with South Atlantic Blockading Squadron),
USS Vandalia,
USS Penguin,
USS Pocahontas,
USS Seminole,
Fort Beauregard,
USS R.B. Forbes
and "Rebel Camp".
US Naval History and Heritage Command # NH 59256 US Naval History and Heritage Command
098634706 525k Honorable Discharge and Obituary of Patrick C. McFadden, US Navy veteran.
Patrick C. McFadden (1824-1901) served in Vandalia from October 1852, through October 1856. He was a native of the area of Kilcar, County Donegal Ireland. His Honorable Discharge from Vandalia, dated October 1856 was given at Kittery, Maine. McFadden received his Citizenship in Norwich, CT. in 1867. He lived in New York City, and retired to Canton, IL. in 1874, and died there in February, 1901. His obituary states he was witness to the opening of Japan during the Matthew G.Perry Expedition, and also posted for 11 months in Shanghai, China with detached duty to the US Consulate with 25 other enlisted men and Officers, which is noted in his sworn Pension Application dated 1898. Patrick T. McFadden
098634707 80k Naval Officer George E. Nicholls, USN, a Civil War period photograph taken at the time he was assigned to USS Vandalia.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 47512. Robert Hurst
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