US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 of USS Hartford at Mare Island
US Navy 11-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 of USS Hartford is displayed in Alden Park at Mare Island, California. Many thanks to Rob from the YouTube Channel FirearmsAddict for taking this photo!
Many thanks to Rob of the YouTube Channel Firearms Addict for taking these photos at Alden Park!
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 was cast at Cyrus Alger and Company in 1858. It weighed 9,045 pounds as manufactured. According to US Navy records, it was placed aboard USS Hartford in 1859. It served with Hartford until 1887 when it was removed at Mare Island. It remains at Mare Island and is displayed there in Alden Park.
Having served aboard Hartford through her entire Civil War career, it is a witness to battles at New Orleans, Vicksburg, and Mobile Bay. Through August of 1868, it had been fired 274 times.
USS Hartford was one of the most famous ships of the US Navy during the American Civil War, and the ship was Admiral David Farragut’s flagship through almost the entire war. Hartford was kept in service by the Navy into the 20th Century. She was intended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be preserved in perpetuity alongside Constitution and Constellation. However, with FDR’s death, she was allowed to further deteriorate until she sank at her moorings at Norfolk in 1956. She was subsequently broken up.
9-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 is one of eight surviving Dahlgrens known to have served aboard Hartford. It is displayed at Alden Park on Mare Island which also displays several other US Navy artifacts.
US Navy 11-Inch Dahlgren Number 228 of USS Hartford is displayed in Alden Park at Mare Island, California. Many thanks to Rob from the YouTube Channel FirearmsAddict for taking this photo!
