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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 Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, 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 docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to
be converted to a sloop-of-war for
Commodore Matthew Perry's
expedition to Japan. Assigned as part of the East
India Squadron under command of Captain Joel Abbot,
was one of the ten American ships
entering Edo Bay, Japan, on 13 February 1854
during Perry's second visit to negotiate the opening of
Japan to foreign trade, remaining as part of the show of
force under the Convention of Kanagawa signed at
Yokohama on 31 March 1854.
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 departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for
Pensacola, Florida, on 12 January 1861 to join Brooklyn
in preventing a possible Confederate attack on the
harbor. On 11 February Macedonian sailed for Veracruz,
Mexico, arriving on the 24th. She then began patrol
operations along the gulf coast and the coast of South
America, with stops at Aspinwall (later Colón, Panama)
and Portobelo, Panama; Martinique; and St. Thomas, U.S.
Virgin Islands. On 3 December she got underway with
Dacotah from St. Thomas for the east coast, arriving
Boston Navy Yard on 16 January 1862.
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.
About the construction of the USS
Macedonian
wooden scale model
- Built from scratch over
hundreds of hours by master artisans
- Double
plank-on-frame
construction (very
important)
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Copper-plated bottom:
individual copper pieces that were weathered unevenly to
create a realistic look (no fake lines.)
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Blackened metal cannons and wooden carriage.
Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which
have proper barrels and wooden carriages which sit on 2
real decks under the main deck. These
guns are not simple barrels inserted into a solid hull
like in a cheap model.
- Authentic Extensive rigging system comprised of many
different sizes of rope and features numerous blocks and
deadeyes
This primarily wood model
is 24" long
$3,470 Shipping
and insurance in the contiguous US included. Other
places: $300 flat rate.
Model is built per commission only. We require only
a small deposit (not full amount, not even half) to start the process $900 The
remaining balance won't be due until the model is
completed,
in several months.
If you'd like a larger
size, just let us know.
Learn more about the
USS Macedonian here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macedonian_(1836)
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