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{{Short description|New Hampshire named ship}}
{{Other ships|USS New Hampshire}}
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'''USS ''New Hampshire''''' was a 2,633-ton ship originally designed to be the 74-gun [[ship of the line]] ''Alabama'', but after being laid down in June 1819, she remained on the stocks for nearly 40 years, well into the age of steam. Renamed as ''New Hampshire'', she was launched as a [[storeship]] and depot ship for use during the [[American Civil War]]. She was later renamed as ''Granite State''. The ship burned and sank in the [[Hudson River]] in May 1921, and after being refloated, again caught fire and sank under tow near [[Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts]], in July 1922.

==Service history==
===''Alabama''===
As ''Alabama'', she was one of "nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each" authorized by [[Congress of the United States|Congress]] on 29 April 1816,<ref name=Gordon>{{cite journal |last=Gordon |first=John Steele |date=February 1993 |title=USS Boondoggle: The Business of America |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/uss-boondoggle#2 |journal=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] |volume=44 |issue=1 |access-date=August 1, 2022 |quote=Consider the Navy’s ship-of-the-line program that followed the War of 1812… Congress, on April 29, 1816, ‘authorized to cause to be built, nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each’. All nine were eventually laid down, in shipyards from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Norfolk, Virginia, and four of them were completed in a timely manner by the end of 1820. None of these ships ever saw action, of course, for the world had entered an extended era of peace.}}</ref> and was laid down by the [[Portsmouth Naval Shipyard]], [[Maine]], in June 1819, the year the State of [[Alabama]] was admitted to the [[United States|Union]]. Though ready for launch by 1825, she remained on the stocks for preservation; an economical measure that avoided the expense of manning and maintaining a [[ship of the line]].

===''New Hampshire''===
[[File:USS New Hampshire LOC det.4a14495.jpg|thumb|left|USS ''New Hampshire'' between 1890 and 1901]]

Renamed ''New Hampshire'' on 28 October 1863, the ship was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 23 April 1864, fitted out as a [[storeship]] and depot ship of the [[South Atlantic Blockading Squadron]], and commissioned on 13 May 1864, [[Commodore (United States)|Commodore]] [[Henry K. Thatcher]] in command.<ref name=navy/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-portland-daily-press-untitled/135366997/ |title=(untitled) |newspaper=[[Portland Press Herald]] |location=[[Portland, Maine]] |page=2 |date=May 3, 1864 |accessdate=November 17, 2023 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

''New Hampshire'' sailed from [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], on 15 June and relieved [[sister ship]] {{USS|Vermont|1848|2}} on 29 July 1864 as store and depot ship at [[Port Royal, South Carolina]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/boston-evening-transcript-latest-by-tele/135366563/ |title=Latest by Telegraph: Naval |newspaper=[[Boston Evening Transcript]] |page=3 |date=July 5, 1864 |accessdate=November 17, 2023 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> and served there through the end of the Civil War. She returned to [[Norfolk, Virginia]], on 8 June 1866, serving as a [[receiving ship]] there until 10 May 1876, when she sailed back to Port Royal. She resumed duty at Norfolk in 1881 but soon shifted to [[Newport, Rhode Island]]. She became [[flagship]] of Commodore [[Stephen B. Luce]]'s newly formed Apprentice Training Squadron, marking the commencement of an effective [[apprentice]] training program for the Navy. Four of ''New Hampshire''{{'}}s crewmen earned the [[Medal of Honor]] for jumping overboard to rescue fellow sailors from drowning in two separate 1882 incidents: Quartermaster [[Henry J. Manning]] and Ship's Printer [[John McCarton]] on 4 January 1882, and Boatswain's Mate [[James F. Sullivan]] and Chief Boatswain's Mate [[Jeremiah Troy]] on 21 April 1882.<ref name="moh">{{Cite web
  | title       = Medal of Honor Recipients – Interim Awards, 1871–1898
  | work        = Medal of Honor Citations
  | publisher   = [[United States Army Center of Military History]]
  | date        = 5 August 2010
  | url         = http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/int1871-98.html
  | access-date  = 5 September 2010 }}</ref>

''New Hampshire'' was towed from Newport to [[New London, Connecticut]], in 1891 and was receiving ship there until decommissioned on 5 June 1892. The following year, she was loaned as a training ship for the [[New York Naval Militia]], which was to furnish nearly 1,000 officers and men to the Navy during the [[Spanish–American War]].

===''Granite State''===
The ship was renamed ''Granite State'' on 30 November 1904 to free the name "New Hampshire" for a newly authorized [[battleship]], {{USS|New Hampshire|BB-25|3}}.<ref name=navy/> Stationed in the [[Hudson River]], ''Granite State'' continued training service throughout the years leading to [[World War I]] when state naval militia were practically the only trained and equipped men available to the Navy for immediate service. They were mustered into the Navy as [[National Naval Volunteers]]. [[Josephus Daniels]], [[Secretary of the Navy]] and also a newspaper editor, wrote in his paper ''Our Navy at War'', "never again will men dare ridicule the Volunteer, the Reservist, the man who in a national crisis lays aside civilian duty to become a soldier or sailor—they fought well. They died well. They have left in deeds and words a record that will be an inspiration to unborn generations."<ref name=navy>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/new-hampshire-i.html |title=New Hampshire I (Ship-of-the-Line) |website=navy.mil |publisher=[[Naval History and Heritage Command]] |accessdate=November 17, 2023}}</ref>

''Granite State'' served the New York state militia until she caught fire and sank at her pier in the Hudson River on 23 May 1921.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-civil-war-friga/135364371/ |title=Civil War Frigate Destroyed by Fire |newspaper=[[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |page=22 |date=May 24, 1921 |accessdate=November 17, 2023 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Her hull was sold for salvage on 19 August to the Mulholland Machinery Corporation. Refloated in July 1922, she was taken in tow headed for the [[Bay of Fundy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/01/15/109831446.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 15, 1922 |title=Old Granite State Soon to be Ashes |via=nytimes.com}}</ref> The towline parted during a storm, she again caught fire and sank off Half Way Rock near [[Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts]], on 26 July.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/biddeford-saco-journal-barge-off-shore-b/135363998/ |title=Barge Off Shore Burns Like Torch |newspaper=Biddeford-Saco Journal |location=[[Biddeford, Maine]] |page=1 |date=July 26, 1922 |accessdate=November 17, 2023 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-old-frigate-is-burned-a/135362603/ |title=Old Frigate is Burned at Sea |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=12 |date=July 27, 1922 |accessdate=November 17, 2023 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

The [[shipwreck]] is in {{convert|30|ft|m|abbr=on}} of water, and is an easy [[Scuba diving|scuba dive]] mission.{{whom|date=November 2023}} Although the hull is mostly buried in the sand, small [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifacts]] and copper spikes may still be found. The site was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on 29 October 1976, reference number 76000261.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/76000261 |title=NPGallery Asset Detail: New Hampshire, The |website=NPS.gov |publisher=[[National Park Service]] |accessdate=November 17, 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|American Civil War}}
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts]]

==Sources==
* {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/new-hampshire-i.html}}
*{{cite journal |last1=Eger|first1=Christopher L.|title=Hudson Fulton Celebration, Part II |journal=Warship International |date=March 2021|volume=LVIII |issue=1 |pages=58–81 |issn=0043-0374}}
* {{cite book | last = Chapelle | first = Howard | year = 1949 | title = The History of the American Sailing Navy: the Ships and their Development | url = https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica0000chap | url-access = registration | publisher = Norton | location = New York City }}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|USS New Hampshire (ship, 1864)}}
* [http://www.wreckhunter.net/DataPages/newhampshire-dat.htm New England Shipwrecks: USS ''New Hampshire'']
* [http://www.mwdc.org/Shipwrecks/ussnewhampshire.html Metrowest Dive Club info on ''New Hampshire'']

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