USS Dale, a 566-ton sailing sloop-of-war, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. She was placed in commission in December 1840 and began a long voyage around Cape Horn to take her place on the Navy's Pacific Station. After returning to the United States in October 1843, Dale was laid up for nearly three years. Between June 1846 and August 1849, she deployed to the Pacific for her second tour, this time taking part in war operations off California and the Mexican west coast. During the 1850s, Dale primarily served off Africa as part of the effort to supress the slave trade.
Dale cruised along the Confederacy's Atlantic shore in 1861, capturing two schooners in October and November. For the rest of the Civil War she was employed as a store ship at Port Royal, South Carolina, and Key West, Florida. Between 1867 and the mid-1880s, the sloop was stationed at Annapolis, Maryland, as a training ship for U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen. She then became receiving ship at the Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Beginning in 1895, Dale served with the Maryland State Naval Militia and was renamed Oriole in November 1904. She was finally sold in December 1921.
USS Dale was named in honor of Commodore Richard Dale (1756-1826), who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and in the United States Navy in the late 1790s and early 1800s.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Dale (1840-1921).
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Photo #: NH 57817 USS Dale (1840-1921) Sepia wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1903. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 445 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 43857 Midshipman Richard G. Davenport, USN Sheet from Davenport's annotated diary, covering the Summer of 1867, when he was on board USS Dale (1840-1921) for the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen's cruise. It also features a picture of Dale and a hand-written description of the ship and the cruise. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Davenport Collection. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 460 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 61572 USS Dale (1840-1921) At the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, while serving as practice ship. Probably photographed circa the early 1880s. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 136KB; 740 x 580 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 2120 U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland View of the Academy waterfront area, circa 1869, looking northeast from the tower of "New Quarters". The twin-turret monitor moored in the Severn River, at left, is USS Tonawanda (renamed Amphitrite in 1869). Ships at the pier in right center are USS Dale and USS Santee. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 565 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 49813 U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland View of the Academy waterfront area, circa the late 1860s, looking northeast from the tower of "New Quarters". The twin-turret monitor moored in the Severn River, at left, is USS Tonawanda (renamed Amphitrite in 1869). Ships at the pier in right center are Constellation, USS Dale and USS Santee. Note the small tug on the beach at left, apparently under construction or undergoing a major overhaul, and the side-wheel steamer at the dock. Compare this view with Photo # NH 2120, showing much the same scene but without the buildings in the lower left. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 570 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 58947 Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine View of the waterfront, circa 1886, with the floating drydock at left. Ships present are (from left to right): USS Constellation; USS Dale; USS Tallapoosa; and USS Constitution (housed over). Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, 1971. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 585 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 55852 USS Dale (1840-1921) Photographed while serving as receiving ship at the Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia, circa 1884-1894. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57930 Washington Navy Yard, D.C. View of the waterfront, looking east from the top of the western shiphouse, circa 1884-1894. The old experimental battery building is in the lower center, the eastern shiphouse is in the left background with the old 11th Street Bridge crossing the Anacostia River in the center and right background. The receiving ship alongside the waterfront is USS Dale. Moored offshore is a Canonicus class monitor. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 79KB; 740 x 465 pixels Note: For more information on where this photograph was taken, see: Washington Navy Yard -- Comments on 1860s Views. |
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Page made 26 October 2002