Our Logo
GEORGE HOLTON, MARK CENTER OHIO ~ USS YANTIC USS GETTYSBURG USS MINNESOTA
Item #: CWB13777
Click on an image to enlarge
YANTIC, (4th rate.)Lieutenant Commander, T. C Harris. Acting Master, S. C. Macintire. Acting Ensigns, J. C. Lord, Ed. Winnemore, J. F. Churchill, and B. B. Sodenberry. Acting Assistant Surgeon, H. K. Wheeler. Acting Assistant Paymaster, S. B. Huey. Engineers: Second Assistants, W. H. Messinger, J. J. Noble, and H. C. Beckwith; Third Assistant, H. F. Loveaire; Acting Third Assistant, George Holton.

The first USS Gettysburg was a steamer in the United States Navy. The ship was built in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1858, named RMS Douglas, and operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company in the United Kingdom between Liverpool, England, and Douglas on the Isle of Man until November 1862. She was then sold to Cunard, Wilson & Company on behalf of the Confederate agents Fraser, Trenholm & Company for use by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Renamed Margaret and Jessie, she operated as a blockade runner until her capture by the Union on 5 November 1863. The ship then was commissioned into the Union Navy on 2 May 1864 as USS Gettysburg. During her U.S. Navy service, Gettysburg operated with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, was involved in both the first and second attacks on Fort Fisher, helped lay telegraph cables between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, and undertook navigational surveys of the Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea. Gettysburg was decommissioned on 6 May 1879 and sold two days later.

USS Minnesota was a wooden steam frigate in the United States Navy. Launched in 1855 and commissioned eighteen months later, the ship served in east Asia for two years before being decommissioned. She was recommissioned at the outbreak of the American Civil War and returned to service as the flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.[2] During the first day of the Battle of Hampton Roads on 8 March 1862, Minnesota ran aground, and the following battle badly damaged her and inflicted many casualties. On the second day of the battle, USS Monitor engaged CSS Virginia, allowing tugs to free Minnesota on the morning of 10 March. Minnesota was repaired and returned to duty, and three years later she participated in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher. Minnesota served until 1898, when she was stricken, beached and burnt to recover her metal fittings and to clear her name for a newly-ordered battleship, USS Minnesota (BB-22).
Shipping Weight: 0.5 lb
Item # CWB13777
 $35.00 USD