The first USS Yosemite was an auxiliary cruiser of the United States Navy. Built as El Sud in 1892 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, in...
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USS Yosemite may refer to more than one United States Navy ship: USS Yosemite (1892), an auxiliary cruiser that fought in the Spanish–American War, in...
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Australia Yosemite, Kentucky, U.S. Yosemite Valley, a glacial valley Yosemite Rock, a Phantom Island in the Pacific Ocean USS Yosemite (1892), an auxiliary...
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USS York County (LST-1175) USS Yorktown (1839, PG-1, CV-5, CV-10, DDG-48/CG-48) USS Yosemite (1892, 1894, CM-2, AD-19) USS Young (DD-312, DD-580) USS Young...
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first USS San Francisco (C-5) (later CM-2) was a steel protected cruiser in the United States Navy. She was later named Tahoe and then Yosemite, becoming...
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Montgomery-class unprotected cruisers, and auxiliary cruisers such as Yosemite. The Mark 3, gun Nos. 87–199, 287–292, were first delivered in January...
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John Muir (redirect from The Yosemite)
make Yosemite a national park, Muir published two landmark articles on wilderness preservation in The Century Magazine, "The Treasures of the Yosemite" and...
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served on two practical cruises aboard USS Alert and USS Mayflower. After his graduation in 1878 he first served on USS Quinnebaug, cruising the North and...
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505 ft (4,421 m), the highest point in the contiguous United States; and Yosemite Valley sculpted by glaciers from one-hundred-million-year-old granite,...
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George Dewey (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
Saint Louis, Missouri. Dewey Point, Yosemite National Park, California, appeared on the first edition of the Yosemite Valley map in 1907 Dewey Hall, an...
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the battle. In November 1900, the Asiatic Squadron auxiliary cruiser USS Yosemite was heavily damaged in a typhoon while in Apra Harbor, Guam. Due to damage...
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Union January 9, 1861 – Secessionist forces in South Carolina fire at the USS Star of the West, forcing it to withdraw. January 9 – Mississippi secedes...
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(1892), ex-El Cid, later WW1 as destroyer tender AD-8 Yankee (1892), ex-El Norte – Spanish–American War, sank 4 December 1908 after grounding Yosemite...
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launched in 1888 USS San Francisco launched 26 October 1889 USS Olympia launched in 1892. Admiral Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay USS Tacoma a Denver-class...
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Chamber of Commerce Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau Madera Tribune, newspaper for the western half of the county founded March 31, 1892 Superior Court of...
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Timeline of the Spanish–American War (section 1892)
McKinley extends the American naval blockade to Puerto Rico. The cruiser USS Yosemite attacks the Spanish Navy transport Antonio Lopez, which is defended by...
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https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142018_Michael.pdf [bare URL PDF] "The Yosemite Disaster & Ghouls". Martinez News-Gazette. October 21, 1865. p. 2. Retrieved...
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steamship called Staffordshire. SS Clearwater (later renamed Ingalls and Yosemite) - A steamer built in 1894 and acquired by the US War Department in 1899...
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Pembroke Dockyard's No. 1 Slipway. The ship was launched on 27 February 1892 by Lady Philipps, wife of Sir Charles Philipps, Bt, Lord Lieutenant of Haverfordwest...
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story of Galen Clark, an explorer who successfully campaigned to have the Yosemite area set aside from commercial development, the original forerunner of...
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SS Choctaw (redirect from SS Choctaw (1892))
SS Choctaw was a steel-hulled American freighter in service between 1892 and 1915, on the Great Lakes of North America. She was a so-called monitor vessel...
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granted a perpetual leasehold over the Hetch Hetchy Valley and watershed in Yosemite National Park by the Raker Act in 1913. The members of the Board of Supervisors...
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1986 John Adair Hassinger (1837–1902), awarded 1892 Frank P Hastings, Major, USS Mohican, awarded 1892 Captain Arthur Hawkins (USN) [when?] [citation...
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large land grant in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains near Yosemite, which proved to be rich in gold. Frémont was later elected one of the...
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Diploma (AM-221) 3 of 5 Dixie-class destroyer tenders Piedmont (AD-17) ... Yosemite (AD-19) 7 of 7 Lassen-class ammunition ships (C2) Lassen (AE-3) ... Shasta (AE-6)...
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During the Spanish–American War, Joy served aboard the auxiliary cruiser USS Yosemite (along with his brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Truman Handy Newberry)...
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established on Point Loma; first navy establishment in the city. 1905 – USS Bennington (PG-4) explodes in the harbor due to a faulty boiler, killing...
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in Lake Superior Bay". Twin Cities. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2023-04-27. "U.S.S. Essex". Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved...
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George E. Starr Princess Louise Olympian Pert Wilson G. Hunt Vancouver Yosemite Steam tugs Clayoquat Ferries Motor vessels (non-ferry) Invermere Lady Rose...
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Arthur Foss (redirect from USS Dohasan (YT-335))
Wallowa to the White Star Line to tow that company's large sidewheeler Yosemite north up the Inside Passage to St. Michael, Alaska. (That town was a major...
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