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USS MACEDONIAN 1836
USS Macedonian was a three-masted, wooden-hulled
sailing frigate of the US Navy. Rebuilt from the keel of
the first Macedonian at Norfolk Navy
Yard, Virginia in 1832, the new Macedonian
was launched and placed in service in 1836.
USS
Macedonian was assigned to the West Indies Squadron to
cruise in the West Indies and along the west coast of
Africa from 1839 to 1847 as a continuing deterrent to
Caribbean pirates.
In 1852 USS Macedonian
was converted to a sloop-of-war for Commodore Matthew Perry's
expedition to Japan. She was one of the ten American
ships entering Edo Bay on 13 February 1854
during Perry's second visit to negotiate the opening of
Japan to foreign trade. She remained as part of the show of
force under the Convention of Kanagawa signed at
Yokohama on 31 March 1854.
The USS
Macedonian remained on patrol in the North Pacific for
the next three years. Then, from 1857 to 1861 she served
with the Home Squadron in the Mediterranean and the
Caribbean.
With the American Civil War looming just ahead, the
frigate Macedonian departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
for Florida, on 12 January 1861 to join Brooklyn in
preventing a possible Confederate attack on the harbor.
On 24th February, USS Macedonian arrived in Veracruz,
Mexico. She then began patrol operations along the gulf
coast and the coast of South America.
USS Macedonian
spent most of the next two years with the West Indies
Squadron. In July 1863 she cruised along the coast of
Portugal with sloop-of-war Kearsarge hunting Confederate
States ship Southerner. It was around then that
Alfred Thayer Mahan (whom
John Keegan called "the most important American
strategist of the nineteenth century") served aboard for
a brief time.
From
the end of that year through 1870, Macedonian served as
school and practice ship for midshipmen at the United
States Naval Academy, first at Newport, Rhode Island,
then after the civil war at Annapolis, Maryland. In 1871
she was laid up in ordinary at the Norfolk Navy Yard,
where she was sold to Wiggin and Robinson for merchant
service.
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Learn more about the
USS Macedonian here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macedonian_(1836)
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