&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:USS_Dale_(1839).jpg) The sloop-of-war USS Dale, similar in design to the Yorktown.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Yorktown |
| Namesake | Yorktown, Virginia |
| Builder | Norfolk Navy Yard |
| Laid down | 1838 |
| Launched | 17 June 1839[1] |
| Commissioned | 15 November 1840 |
| Decommissioned | 11 August 1843 |
| Recommissioned | 7 August 1844 |
| Decommissioned | 9 June 1846 |
| Recommissioned | 22 November 1848 |
| Fate | Sunk, 6 September 1850 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop-of-war |
| Displacement | 566 long tons (575 t) |
| Length | 117.7 ft (35.9 m) |
| Beam | 33.9 ft (10.3 m) |
| Draft | 15.5 ft (4.7 m) |
| Complement | 150 officers and men |
| Armament | 14 × 32 pdr (15 kg) guns, 2 × 12 pdr (5.4 kg) long guns[1] |
The first USS Yorktown was a 16-gun sloop-of-war of the United States Navy. Used mostly for patrolling in the Pacific and anti-slave trade duties in African waters, the vessel was wrecked off Maio, Cape Verde in 1850.
- ^ a b Canney, Donald L. (2001). Sailing War Ships of the US Navy. London: Chatham Publishing. pp. 142–144. ISBN 1-86176-110-4.