The USS Macedonian departed Portsmouth, New Hampshire and joined the USS Brooklyn off Pensacola, Florida on 12 January 1861. After that, it patrolled the Gulf of Mexico and off South America after which it saw duty with the West Indies Squadron.
In July 1863, along with the USS Kearsarge, it looked for the CSS Southerner.
Noted naval person Alfred Mahan Thayer served aboard it.
From 1863 to 1870, it was a school and practice ship for midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. Put into ordinary in 1871 and then sold into merchant service. By 1900, it had been converted into the Macedonian Hotel at City Island in the Bronx. It was mentioned in Ripley's Believe It or Not in 1983.
It caught fire and burned down in 1922.
I saw a picture of it as the Macedonian Hotel and it sure didn't look much like a ship anymore.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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