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The History of Ships Named LOUISIANA

The military submarine USS LOUISIANA (SSBN
743) is the 4th United States Naval vessel toThe second ship named LOUISIANA, a side wheel
be named in honor of the 18th state admittedsteamship, was commissioned in August of
to the union, and is the 18th and last of the1861. It was originally posted to the Union's
Trident Submarines to be commissioned intoNorth Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and the
the  United  States  Navy.LOUISIANA operated along the Coast of
Virginia against Confederate blockades. The
The first ship named LOUISIANA, a sloop builtsteamship LOUISIANA was integral in the
in the shipyards of New Orleans in 1812,defense of Washington, D.C. in Dec. of 1862,
played a key role in the defense of the citywhere Maj. Gen. John J. Foster noted in his
of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Fromcruise journal that LOUISIANA "had rendered
Dec. 23, 1814 to Jan. 8, 1815, the sloop shipmost efficient aid, throwing their shells
LOUISIANA pounded the advancing redcoats,with great precision, and clearing the
providing essential naval gunfire for Generalstreets, through which her guns had range."
Jackson's troops. When the British troopsThe ship was later was involved in many
advanced far up river and beyond the range ofengagements off the coast and in the rivers
the very effective cannon fire of the sloopof the State of North Carolina. The second
LOUISIANA, the ship's crew did not let theLOUISIANA was sacrificed to the sea on
reduction of wind slow down their support ofChristmas Eve, 1864, when she was towed,
their fellow countrymen. Crew members wentstripped of essentials, and packed with
ashore with long mooring lines and pulledexplosives, to the base of Ft. Fisher in
their sloop up the river against the currentsWilmington, North Carolina, and detonated in
of the raging Mississippi to re-engage thean effort to completely destroy the fort
enemy. The LOUISIANA was credited withwithout much loss of life. The huge explosion
playing a key role in the victory over thehad little effect, and it required Union
British and keeping the valuable seaport offorces many more weeks to capture this
New  Orleans  in  American  control.essential Confederate stronghold.



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