OHIO

Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

Ship of the Line Laid down 1817 - Launched May 30 1820 Placed in Ordinary USS OHIO (Ship of the Line) Commissioned 1838 - Placed in Ordinary 1840 Served as Receiving Ship at Boston 1841-46 Recommissioned December 7 1846 - Placed in Ordinary 1850 Reactivated as Receiving Ship at Boston 1851 - Placed in Ordinary 1875 Struck from Naval Register September 27 1883 Sold to J. L. Snow...Fate (See Other Information at bottom)

Naval Covers

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1. Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

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Postmark Type --- Killer Bar Text	Postmark Date	Thumbnail Link To Postmark Image	Thumbnail Link To Cover Image

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1st Commissioning 1838 to 1840

 

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1839

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2nd Commissioning December 7 1846 to 1850

 

Non-Posted

1849 (manuscript)

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Other Information

"...Ohio was sold by Israel Snow of Rockland Maine, in 1884 to a group of investors from Greenport, New York. The ship was purchased for the copper in the hull, and was going to be scrapped. The ship was towed to Greenport Harbor and dismantled. The figurehead of Hercules was purchased by John Aldrich, who later sold it to a hotel in Hampton Bays, it was later moved to Stony Brook and currently is displayed in a pavilion near the water in downtown Stony Brook. The hull was towed to a quiet section of Greenport harbor and was loaded up with dynamite and oil was poured on it. A large crowd of locals gathered to witness the demolition, apparently Robert Corey who was the man to set off the explosion miscalculated how fast it would happen, and was killed when an iron bolt hit him in the head. The wreck was allowed to decay into the harbor after that, and in the 1960's some local divers found it again and salvaged some of the metal pins. The pins have recently been donated to our nautical museum." Courtesy Southold Historical Society.

 

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