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East India Squadron is a squadron of American ships which existed in the nineteenth century. In 1835, when the East India Squadron joined the force of the Pacific Squadron The Pacific Squadron, also known as the Pacific Station, was part of the United States Navy in the 1800s and early 1900s. ...
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USS Powhatan (1850), under Comdr. William J. McCluney, was assigned to the East India Squadron and arrived on station via Cape of Good Hope 15 June 1853. Her arrival in Chinese waters coincided with an important phase of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s negotiations for commercial relations with the Japanese and the opening of two ports. She was Perry’s flagship during his November visit to Whampoa. On 14 February 1854 she entered Yedo (Tokyo) Bay with the rest of the squadron and the Treaty of Kanagawa was signed on her deck on 31 March 1854. USS Powhatan was a United States Navy sidewheel steam frigate. ...
Assigned to the East India Squadron under Commodore Matthew Perry, the USS Macedonian (1836) with Capt. Joel Abbot in command, was one of the six American ships arrayed off Uraga, Japan, 13 February 1854 during Perry's second visit to negotiate the opening of Japan to foreign trade. The second USS Macedonian, a 36-gun frigate, was rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, beginning in 1832; and was launched and placed in service in 1836, Capt. ...
After completing her trials, which she began in January 1851, the side-wheel steamer USS Susquehanna (1847) sailed on 8 June for the Far East to become flagship of the East India Squadron. USS Susquehanna, a sidewheel steamer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for a river which rises in Lake Otsego in central New York and flows across Pennsylvania and the northeast corner of Maryland to empty into the Chesapeake Bay. ...
The USS Dolphin (1836) got underway 6 May 1848 to join the East India Squadron, protecting American citizens in Asiatic waters. The third USS Dolphin was a brig in the United States Navy. ...
Recommissioned on 12 August 1850, Saratoga got underway on 15 September and proceeded to the western Pacific for service in the East India Squadron. USS Saratoga, a sloop-of-war, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Battle of Saratoga of the American Revolutionary War. ...
Levant sailed 13 November for Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, and Hong Kong, where she arrived to join the East India Squadron 12 May 1856. On 1 July she embarked the U.S. Commissioner to China for transportation to Shanghai, arriving 1 August. The first Levant was a second-class sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. ...
Departing Norfolk 4 August, the USS Germantown (1846) sailed via the Cape of Good Hope to Ceylon, where in 22 December she joined Flag Officer Josiah Tattnall's East India Squadron off Point de Gala. For 2 years she cruised Far Eastern waters and visited the principal ports of China and Japan, where she found "uniform friendly reception" as the squadron guarded American interests in the Orient. Sailing via the Cape of Good Hope, she returned to Norfolk in April 1860 USS Germantown was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy. ...
After a four-day stop at Singapore, where Commodore Armstrong relieved Commodore Joel Abbot in command of the East India Squadron, the frigate USS San Jacinto (1850) reached the bar off the mouth of the Me Nam (later the Chao Phraya) River. The first USS San Jacinto was an early screw frigate in the United States Navy during the mid 1800s. ...
The new side-wheel steamer USS Saginaw (1859) sailed from San Francisco Bay on 8 March 1860, headed for the western Pacific, and reached Shanghai, China, on 12 May. She then served in the East India Squadron, for the most part cruising along the Chinese coast to protect American citizens and to suppress pirates. She visited Japan in November but soon returned to Chinese waters. On 30 June 1861, she silenced a battery at the entrance to Quinhon Bay, Cochin China, which had fired upon her while she was searching for the missing boat and crew of American bark, Myrtle. On 3 January 1862, Saginaw was decommissioned at Hong Kong The first USS Saginaw was a sidewheel steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. ...
Commanders Armstrong served as the Commodore of the East India Squadron in 1855 during the Second Opium War.
Andrew Hull Foote Commanded Portsmouth in the East India Squadron on November 20–21, 1856, Foote led a landing party that seized the barrier forts at Canton, China, in reprisal for attacks on American ships. Andrew Hull Foote Andrew Hull Foote (September 12, 1806 – June 26, 1863) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the American Civil War. ...
The second Portsmouth was a wooden sloop in the United States Navy during the mid 1800s. ...
At Hong Kong on 29 January 1858, he relieved Commodore James Armstrong taking command of the East India Squadron, breaking his flag in San Jacinto. During his two years in the Far East, Commodore Tattnall came to the assistance of a British squadron under fire from the Barrier Forts at the mouth of the Pei Ho River and, on his return voyage early in 1860, carried the first diplomatic embassy from Japan to the United States.
After two years as Commander of the East India Squadron, Capt. Cornelius Stribling returned home in 1861 to find the Union rent asunder by the Civil War. Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling (22 September 1796 - 17 January 1880 ) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War and the American Civil War. ...
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