Monday, May 21, 2018

Some More on the USS Canandaigua


**  Edward Gabriel Andre Barrett commanded the USS Canandaigua after the war.

**  Canadaigua is a town in New York.  County seat of Ontario County.  Near Lake Ontario and southeast of Rochester.  There is also a Lake Canandaigua.

**  The USS Canandaigua was a sloop of war that only held the name USS Detroit from May 15 to August 10, 1869.  The ship was a mis-naming during a massive renaming exercise by the U.S. Navy.

**  A new USS Detroit was christened and launched October 18, 2014.

--Old B-Runnert

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