Frigate Wabash in Danger

[DaveBrt]

Columbus, Ga. Times October 19, 1864

"From the Telegraphic News

From the Herald

We learn that the noble frigate Wabash, 48 guns, Capt. John De Camp, while on the passage from Port Royal, went ashore on the Frying Pan Shoals, off the coast of North Carolina, and remained in that perilous position for eight hours. All her shot and shell were thrown overboard to lighten her; but she was unable alone to extricate herself from her troubles. They were about to throw overboard her battery when one of the Wilmington blockaders came to her assistance, and she was got off, but not without damage to her hull. There was a heavy sea running at the time, and she pounded her bottom badly on the shoals, causing her to leak in a serious manner. None of the officers or crew were injured. The Wabash is now lying at Hampton Roads."

The Wabash was a screw frigate, commissioned in 1858. She had an active war service and was enroute to an overhaul in the Norfolk Navy Yard when she grounded on October 1, 1864. Repairs were completed in time for her to participate in both attacks on Fort Fisher. She was decommissioned in 1912.

 

[RoadDog]

Reading the Wikipedia article about the Wabash, I see she was repaired just in time to take part in the first attack on Fort Fisher.

Was there a Board of Inquiry for the sunning aground?

 

[USS ALASKA]

Wabash departed her station on 1 October, bound for the Norfolk Navy Yard and an overhaul. En route, she grounded briefly on Frying Pan Shoals, suffering minor damage to her rudder. Repairs and overhaul were completed by 16 December, in time for Wabash to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and to participate in the first attack on Fort Fisher, N.C., on 24 and 25 December 1864.

Wabash I (Screw Frigate)

A river that rises in Drake County, Ohio, near Fort Recovery and meanders westward across Indiana until it reaches Illinois at a point just southwest of Terre Haute. South of that point, it outlines the border between the two states until emptying into the Ohio a few miles west of Uniontown, Ky...

www.history.navy.mil

Five IX-inch Dahlgren smooth-bore cannon which served on the Wabash survived at the Boston Navy Yard. They were transferred in 2010 to the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, where they are on display. Four of the guns are Tredegar Iron Works pieces. One is registry #45, one is either #50 or 51, one is probably #34, and the number of the fourth is unknown. All were cast in 1855. The fifth Dahlgren gun was cast by Cyrus Alger & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, in 1864, registry # 852.

...according to 'The Artilleryman magazine (Historical Publications, Inc., Tunbridge, VT.), Vol. 32 No. 1 Winter 2010'

Additionally, a 6.4-inch (100-pounder) Parrott rifle which served on the Wabash survives in Danvers, Massachusetts. It is a West Point Foundry foundry piece, registry #116, cast in 1863.

...according to 'The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast, and Naval Cannon. By Edwin Olmstead, Wayne E. Stark & Spencer C. Tucker. Museum Restoration Service, Bloomfield, Canada, 1997.'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[RSMorris]

Wabash departed her station on 1 October, bound for the Norfolk Navy Yard and an overhaul. En route, she grounded briefly on Frying Pan Shoals, suffering minor damage to her rudder. Repairs and overhaul were completed by 16 December, in time for Wabash to join the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and to participate in the first attack on Fort Fisher, N.C., on 24 and 25 December 1864.

Wabash I (Screw Frigate)

A river that rises in Drake County, Ohio, near Fort Recovery and meanders westward across Indiana until it reaches Illinois at a point just southwest of Terre Haute. South of that point, it outlines the border between the two states until emptying into the Ohio a few miles west of Uniontown, Ky...

www.history.navy.mil

Five IX-inch Dahlgren smooth-bore cannon which served on the Wabash survived at the Boston Navy Yard. They were transferred in 2010 to the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, where they are on display. Four of the guns are Tredegar Iron Works pieces. One is registry #45, one is either #50 or 51, one is probably #34, and the number of the fourth is unknown. All were cast in 1855. The fifth Dahlgren gun was cast by Cyrus Alger & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, in 1864, registry # 852.

...according to 'The Artilleryman magazine (Historical Publications, Inc., Tunbridge, VT.), Vol. 32 No. 1 Winter 2010'

Additionally, a 6.4-inch (100-pounder) Parrott rifle which served on the Wabash survives in Danvers, Massachusetts. It is a West Point Foundry foundry piece, registry #116, cast in 1863.

...according to 'The Big Guns: Civil War Siege, Seacoast, and Naval Cannon. By Edwin Olmstead, Wayne E. Stark & Spencer C. Tucker. Museum Restoration Service, Bloomfield, Canada, 1997.'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

I think I took some pics of the cannons they had outside in Columbus. I have to look and see if they were from the Wabash.