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See for other ships of this name. The first USS ''Saginaw'' was a sidewheel sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. ==History== The first vessel built by the Mare Island Navy Yard, ''Saginaw'' was laid down on 16 September 1858; launched as ''Toucey'' on 3 March 1859; sponsored by Miss Cunningham, daughter of the commandant of the Navy Yard; renamed ''Saginaw''; and commissioned on 5 January 1860, Commander James F. Schenck in command. The new side-wheel ship 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 Qui Nhon 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 and returned to Mare Island on 3 July for repairs. Relaunched on 3 December 1862 and recommissioned on 23 March 1863, ''saginaw'' was attached to the Pacific Squadron and operated along the United States West Coast to prevent Confederate activity. She visited Puget Sound in the spring of 1863 to investigate reports that Confederate privateers were being outfitted in British Columbia, but returned after learning that the scheme had no chance of success. Her cruises in 1864 took ''Saginaw'' to ports in Mexico and Central America to protect the interests of the United States endangered by Confederate activity and by European interference in Mexico. During the closing months of the year, she escorted steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company carrying rich cargoes of bullion from the California gold fields. In the spring of 1865, the ship was assigned to the United States Revenue Cutter Service but was returned to the Navy on 2 June 1865. She spent the remainder of 1865 protecting American citizens at Guaymas and other Mexican ports during the unrest and disorder which beset Mexico during the struggle between Emperor Maximilian I and Benito Juárez. In March 1866, ''Saginaw'' returned to Mare Island. She sailed in August 1966 for Puget Sound to support settlers in the Pacific Northwest. While there, she aided the Western Union Company in laying a cable which brought the first telegraphic service to the region. After returning to Mare Island in December 1866, the ship remained at the navy yard through 1867. In April 1868, a year after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia, ''Saginaw'' got underway for the Alaska Territory and, with the exception of a run home late in the year for replenishment, spent the next year exploring and charting the Alaskan coast. In February 1869 a conflict erupted between the United States Army and the Tlingit people in Alaska's Kake region. After the Tlingit refused a command not to leave Sitka, one Tlingit was killed. Seeking revenge, the Tlingit killed two innocent miners at Murder Cove on Admiralty Island. ''Saginaw'' then deployed from Sitka and shelled and burned three Tlingit villages on Kiku Island near what is today called Saginaw Bay. The Tlingit already had evacuated the villages by the time ''Saginaw'' arrived. After steaming back to San Francisco Bay in April 1869, ''Saginaw'' departed her home port on 28 July 1869 and operated along the coast of Mexico until arriving back at Mare Island on 11 November 1869. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Saginaw (1859)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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