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| History | |
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| Name | USS Jamestown |
| Namesake | Jamestown, Virginia |
| Launched | 1844 |
| Commissioned | 12 December 1844 |
| Decommissioned | 11 May 1854 |
| Fate | Became a Marine Hospital, destroyed in a fire on 3 January 1913 |
| Recommissioned | 22 February 1855 |
| Decommissioned | 2 June 1857 |
| Recommissioned | 16 December 1857 |
| Decommissioned | 14 February 1860 |
| Recommissioned | 5 June 1861 |
| Decommissioned | 17 September 1865 |
| Recommissioned | 3 September 1866 |
| Decommissioned | 13 August 1868 |
| Recommissioned | 25 January 1869 |
| Decommissioned | 7 October 1871 |
| Recommissioned | 16 March 1876 |
| Decommissioned | 3 March 1879 |
| Recommissioned | 8 May 1879 |
| Decommissioned | 21 September 1881 |
| Recommissioned | 14 February 1882 |
| Decommissioned | 31 August 1888 |
| Recommissioned | 13 April 1889 |
| Decommissioned | 6 September 1892 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop |
| Displacement | 1,150 long tons (1,168 t) |
| Length | 163 ft 6 in (49.83 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft 2 in (9.80 m) |
| Depth | 17 ft 3 in (5.26 m) |
| Complement | 186 officers and sailors |
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The first USS Jamestown was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
Jamestown was launched in 1844 by the Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia; and commissioned there on 12 December, with Commander Robert B. Cunningham in command.