US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 229 of USS Hartford in Vallejo, California
US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 229 is displayed in Independence Park in Vallejo, California. Photo by Rob of Firearms Addict.
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US Navy 9-Inch Dahlgren Number 229 was cast at Cyrus Alger and Company in 1858. It weighed 9,070 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 is displayed nearby in Independence Park on the waterfront in Vallejo, California.
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 345 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 229 is one of eight surviving Dahlgrens known to have served aboard Hartford - another of which, number 228, is nearby at Alden Park on Mare Island.
It is displayed alongside a US Navy 24-Pounder of 32 Hundredweight
