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10-74) PH031111X UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATA SHEET FOR NPS USE ONLY MAY 24 1976 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM RECEIVED 1 3 4 5 6 DATE ENTERED DCT 20978 B 76000 261 SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS NAME HISTORIC The New Hampshire (Alabama, Granite State) AND/OR COMMON same LOCATION STREET & NUMBER SEuf manchestee of8 ocean side of Graves Island -NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Manchester & VICINITY OF Sixth STATE CODE COUNTY CODE Massachusetts 025 Essex 009 CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY DISTRICT _BUILDING(S) _STRUCTURE X SITE _OBJECT OWNERSHIP XPUBLIC _PRIVATE _BOTH PUBLIC ACQUISITION _IN PROCESS -BEING CONSIDERED STATUS _OCCUPIED XUNOCCUPIED _WORK IN PROGRESS ACCESSIBLE & YES: RESTRICTED -YES: UNRESTRICTED PRESENT USE AGRICULTURE MUSEUM _COMMERCIAL _PARK -EDUCATIONAL PRIVATE RESIDENCE -ENTERTAINMENT _RELIGIOUS -GOVERNMENT -SCIENTIFIC -INDUSTRIAL -TRANSPORTATION _MILITARY XOTHER Shipwreck OWNER OF PROPERTY NAME Town of Manchester STREET & NUMBER Manchester Town Hall CITY, TOWN Manchester - VICINITY OF LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION STATE Massachusetts 01944 COURTHOUSE.

REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. STREET & NUMBER Director, Naval History Building 220, Room 205-211, Washington Navy Yard CITY. TOWN STATE washington, DC REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE Inventory of the Historic Assets of the Commonwealth DATE 1975 DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Massachusetts Historical Commission CITY. TOWN -FEDERAL X STATE _COUNTY _LOCAL Boston STATE Massachusetts 02108 7-DESCRIPTION CONDITION -EXCELLENT -GOOD _FAIR _DETERIORATED X RUINS _UNEXPOSED CHECK ONE _UNALTERED X ALTERED CHECK ONE -ORIGINAL SITE XMOVED DATE. DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The site of the wreck of the New Hampshire is located on the ocean side of Graves Island which is just off the coast of Manchester, Massachusetts. The wreckage lies on a sandy bottom in about thirty-five feet of water at its deepest. The New Hampshire was one of nine ships to rate not less than 74 gins each as authorized by Congress in 1816. Her keel was laid in the Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, in 1819, and she is said to have been designed by William Doughty of Philadelphia. She was first named the Alabama in honor of that state's entry into the Union. The New Hampshire (a name she received on October 28, 1863, and by which she is most com- monly known) was a square rigged, three masted ship-of-the-line. She measured 196 feet 3 inches by 53 feet, weighed 2,633 pounds, and had a draft of 25 feet 6 inches. The New Hampshire had 74 guns and was capable of carrying a crew of 820.

On May 23, 1921 the New Hampshire caught fire and sank at her pier in the Hudson River. Her hal1 was sold on Aúgust 19, 1921 to the Mulholland Machinery Corporation, and she was refloated in July 1922 and taken in tow to the Bay of Fundy. On the way the towline parted and she again caught fire and sank. Today the New Hampshire lies underwater in various pieces. About six of her ribs protrude from the sandy bottom where the greater part of her wooden structure is found. The copper and brass fittings and rolled copper sheathing are said to have been forged in Paul hogpenteh part of revere's foundry, and are still present throughout the remains of the wreckage.

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD -PREHISTORIC -1400-1499 _1500-1599 _1600-1699 _1700-1799 X1800-1899 - 1900- AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC -CONSERVATION -LAW AGRICULTURE _ECONOMICS -LITERATURE ARCHITECTURE _EDUCATION XMILITARY ART *ENGINEERING -MUSIC _COMMERCE -EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY _COMMUNICATIONS -INDUSTRY -POLITICS/GOVERNMENT -INVENTION _RELIGION SCIENCE .-SCULPTURE _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN -THEATER _TRANSPORTATION -OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES 1819 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE BUILDER

Statement of significance

/ARCHITECT attributed to William Doughty The New Hampshire is significant as one of the last wooden battle ships to be constructed before the development of steam and speed. The wreckage is significant in Massachusetts because it is one of the few visible in New England waters. At the end of the War of 1812, most of the American Navy's warships were well worn out and beyond repair. The increased activity of piracy in the Caribbean and other develop- ments called for the building of a new efficient Navy. The American Navy had no so-called "ships-of-the-line" until after the War of 1812. A ship-of-the-line may be defined as a "ship of war large enough to have a place in the line of battle," or more precisely as a ship which carried from 70 to 140 guns on two or more armmred decks.

The ship of the battleline was the backbone of battle fleets and could hit the hardest blows and take the most punishment in conflict. The New Hampshire was one of nine of these ships to rate not less than 74 guns each authorized by Congress in April 1816. Three years later she was built in the Portsmouth Navy Yard in New Hampshire. Her design is said to have been by William Doughty of Phi- ladelphia who was the principal advisor in ship design and construction for the Board of Navy Commissioners. At the time of her construction in 1819, she was named the Ala- bama since it was the year that state was admitted to the Union. Even though ready for launch by 1825, there was no immediate need for the Alabama and she remained on the stocks for preservation until the Civil War. As a battleship she was out- dated before she saw battle.

As iron and steam replaced wood and sail, the old ships-of- the-line were no match for the speed and deadly efficiency of the new warships. Therefore, the Alabama whose name was changedto the New Hampshire in 1863, wasrelegated for use as a stores and depot ship of the Federal Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. With Commodore Henry K. Thatcher commanding, she sailed from Portsmouth in 1864 to Port Royal, South Carolina where she served until the end of the Civil War. Afterwards she served as a receiving ship in Norfolk, Virginia, and later as a flagship in Newport, Rhode Island for the newly formed Apprentice Training Squadron, marking the commencement of the first effective apprentice training program for the Navy. Although she was useless for her original purpose, the New Hampshire continued to play an important role in naval history.

In 1891 she served as a receiving ship in New Iondon, Connecticut and in 1892 was loaned as a training ship to the New York State Naval Militia which was to furnish nearly a thousand men to the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. The New Hampshire was renamed the Granite State in 1904 to free the name of New Hampshire for à newly authorized battleship. Stationed in the Hudson River, she continued training service through the years leading to World War I when state naval militia were practically continued 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGR APHICAL REFERENCES Amadon, George F. The New Hampshire. Weston, Massachusetts. 1975. Chapelle, Howard I. The History of the American Sailing Navy. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. New York. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Volume IV. Navy Department, Washington, DC, 1969. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Volume V.

Navy Department, Washington, DC, 1970.

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GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY wreckage scattered over approximately one acre UTM REFERENCES 730 AL191 13|5,616,2,0 ZONE EASTING 14,711,414,0,01 NORTHING C *LÓNE EASTING NORTHING NORTHING ULLJbIIu VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION STATE STATE LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES CODE COUNTY CODE CODE COUNTY CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Judy D.

Dobbs, National Register Editor and Robert White, National Association of Under- ORGANIZATION DATE water Instructors Massachusetts Historical Commissi on May 13, 1976 STREET & NUMBER TELEPHONE 294 Washington Street 617-727-8470 CITY OR TOWN STATE Boston Massachusetts 02108 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - STATE LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE Eliakuch Reed Amadon TITLE Executive Director, Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE May 13,1976 FOR NPS USE ONLY I HEREBY CERTIFY THAITHIS PROPERTYAS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST: BiRECTOR, AEFICEOF ARCHEOLOGY RESENATONL DATE 29/29/9 DATE Iorefre KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER GPO 892-453 Form No. 10-300a (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED MAY 24 1976 DATE ENTERED OCT 2 0 1976 CONTI NUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER #8 PAGE 1 the only trained and equipped men available to the Navy for immediate service. These men were mustered into the Navy as National Naval Volunteers. The Granite State served the New York State Militia until she caught fire and sank in 1921.

Her hull was sold and she was taken in tow to the Bay of Fundy. The towline parted during a storm and she again caught fire and sank off Graves Island. Today the New Hampshire is remembered as the ship-of-the-line to survive the longest and one which, although a misfit by the time of her launching, was an excellent example of America's first and only experience with this type of design. Today the wreckage has further significance in that it is among the few sites not completely covered by the shifting sands of New England waters. The site of the wreckage has been visited by three Massachusetts Historical Commission staff members, two of whom have examined the New Hampshire underwater. Property State Mass. TECHNICAL Photos _ Maps The New Hampshire (Alabama, Granite Btate) Working Number 5, 24.76,3460 UNDEr The CIRCUMSTANNCES, I THINk Veueal form Ture DESCRAPCION IS ADEQUATE Sept.

SEE ATTACHED: Essex CONTROL KK 5.26.76 HISTORIAN AccENT LiEnoy 150c76 ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN checkon ounerahip ACCEPT Opf Atem Me Doine LEBOUKEA 10.8.76 557-2531 ARCHEOLOGIST OTHER HAER Inventory - Review REVIEW UNIT CHIEF Acceps Cole 10-18-26 BRANCH CHIEF KEEPER Won 10/24/74 UCT 2 9 19/6 INT:2106-74 National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Send-back- 12-7-26 Re-submit Entered United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No. 7 The New Hampshire Manchester, MA Eraey tr. Alan Budreau, photographer 1975 NAUI, Box 291, Back Bay Annex, Boston, MA 02117 Shows some of the exposed timbers which are covered by heavy growths. brass pin can be seen.

A MAY 219 1376 Photograph #1 4 2-1 PROPERTY OF THE AYIONAL: REGISTER The New Hampshire Ersey ta, Manchester, MA Alan Buäreau, photographer 1975 NAUI, Box 291, Back Bay Annex, Boston, MA 02117 Shows a blackened piece of timber pro- jecting from the sand. Probably part of the ship which was burned. OCT: 2 9 1978 Photograph #2 ip 4 5-A -FROPERTY: OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER WASO-166 (August 1971) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TELEPHONE REPORT 1. CALL X FROM (Name) Ioe Orfout 3. SUBJECT, PROJECT NO., ETC. DATE 12 JuLY 1976 TIME OF CALL 12:40 2. ADDRESS (Tel. No. if needed) MA. THE NEX HAMPSHIRE MOMINATON 4. DETAILS OF DISCUSSION Is OWNERSHIP CORRELT? July'5 Joe: on town laud ,therefrre csoume ouned by town.

he contacted Srist Haval Destrit Which Knous wothrig about the boal NAME OF PERSONPLACING/RECEIVING CALL Lebovah TITLE arli Vil OFFICE GPO 897-848 WASO-166 (August 1971) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONALPARK SERVICE TELEPHONE REPORT 1. CALL XI TO: FROM (Name) Dce Orfout 3. SUBJECT, PROJECT NO., ETC DATE 12 1ukx 1976 TIME OF CALL 12:40 ADDRESS (Tel. No. if needed) MA AM PM 15=74 THE NEW. HAMPSHIRE. MOMINATION 4. DETAILS OF DISCUSSION Is OWNERSHIP CaOFSECT AlIIA MC DiITE July'5 foe on town laud ,therefrre csoume oired by town. Le contacted fuist haval Distuct Which Knous hithig abouh tie boal Cole 10-18-76 NAME OF PERSON PLACING/RECEIVING CALL Lebovah TITLE OFFICE Qseli lheA GPO 897-848 WASO-O (Nov.

T56) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WASHINGTON OFFICE FOLLOW-UP SLIP To: PR (Bill Lebovich) Date 7/12/76 Although within the three (3) mile limit controlled by the State, the vessel remains Federal property and as such is subject to the provisions of the Federal Antiquities Act of 1906 (34 Stat. 225). Its archeological potential appears to be rather minimal. If the present version of the nomination's "statement of significance" is correct, I submit the vessel is of national significance also. The necessity for underwater archeological investigations are unwarranted at this point in time. Should available documentation regarding rigging, deck design, and/or general structural plans be unrecorded, perhaps such investigations would be warranted in the future.

I highly suspect that full plans exist with the Department of the Navy and/or Mulholland (presently in archives) which fully document the vessel's entire construction cycle including original phases and subsequent modifications over the years. Charles M /Mc Kinney Archeologist, PI NOT TO BE FILED Signature ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered STATE MASSACHUSETTS OCT 2 9 1976 Name Location Ihe New Hampshire Old Curtisville Historie District Manchester vicinity Essex County Interlaken Berkshire County Also Notified Hon. Edward M. Kennedy Hon. Edvard W. Brooke Hon. Michael J. Hazrington Hon. Silvio 0. Conte Regional Director, North Atlantic Region State Historie Preservation Officer Mes. Blizabeth R.

Amadon Executive Director Massachusetts Historieal Connission 294 Washington Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108 880 Mmott/row 11/4/76 INT: 2950-75 NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET ME as it appears on federal register: ydate of entry: LoCaeder sareet de ne,#tet #N The Alabama, Granite State county code: 10-29-76 009 6 LOCATION city / town vicinity of state GNPS REGION: SE of Manchester off Graves Island Manchester MA North Atlantic OLNER OPRIVATE OSTATE . *MUNICIPAL -COUNTY I -MULTIPLE [ -FEDERAL(agency name) 9 EXISTING SURVEYS CHABS HAER ONHL (10 FUNDED? OYES *NO (1ICONGRESS.

DISTRICT 6th (12)SOURCE Of NOMINATION WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICTI IITHIN MATIGNAL HISTORIC LAND LUYESNAME COYES LAME 1 CONDITION - deteriorated Zaltered Doriginal site 17)features: Dexcellent Xruins Dgood Dunexposed Ounaltered Omoved Oreconstrueted Ounknown Dfair Ounexcavated Dexcavated BACCESS OYES-Restricted/ XYES - Unrestricted - No Access E AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : XENGINEERING -11 -ARCHEOLOGY - prehistoric-2 -COMMERCE-6 CENTERTAINMENT-26 - ARCHEOLOGY- historic-1 - COMMUNICATIONS -7 -EXPLORATION -12 -AGRICULTURE -3 . - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS- 9 - INDUSTRY-13 -ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION -14 - Unknown - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 - LAW- 16 - LITERATURE - 17 MILITARY- 18 - MUSIC- 19 - PHILOSOPHY - 20 county Essex BADMINISTRATOR: ESTATE CFEDERAL if state whoprepared form?

1 -LOCAL OPRIVATE ORGANIZATION *OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-1 *OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT-2 22OSUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 O*NOT INTACT-O AANOT INTACT-O SOUNKHOWN-4 QONOT INTACT - O OUNKNOWN-5 50UNKNOWN-6 2ONOT APPLICABLE-7 WONOT APPLICABLE-8 ZXNOT APPLICABLE - 9 (19) ADAPTIVE USE DYES SSNO SAVED? DYES IS PROPERTY HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Ano - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 -RECREATION-28 OCLAIMS: explain first'o -RELIGION-22 CSETTLEMENT-29 one of nine in finst group - SCIENCE- 23 CURBAN PLANWING-31 of "ships ofthe line" - SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24 D OTHER (SPECIFY) (ie more than 7u çuns) built - SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 - TRANSPORTATION - 25 'oldest' O 'only' D * functions WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: GUNBOAT CURRENTLY: WRECK Barchitectural style(s): @landseape arohlteot / gardon designer: @)intorior decorator: Darchiteet: 2dates of initial construction: 1819-KEEL LAID major alterations: historic events: JULY, 1922-BURNED, 1863 chage 2 master builder: ETHNIC GROUP ASSOCIATION artist: artisan: attritoWM. Doughty builder/contractor: NAMES give role & date y ynged i te foundoy ISTIOM: massachusetto distorsical Commission-Saff merubero efanined Shio under water.

NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP SITE OF WRECK OF FEDERAL GUNBORT NEW HAMPSHIRE, BURNED aMD SUNK JuLX, 1922 ; REMAINS INCLUDE HULL RIBS, COPPER AND BRND FITTINES AND COPPER SHEATHING BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN FORGED IN PAUL REVERE'S SHOP. BUILT ( IASDBRE, TOANNCREASEO INCIDENCE OF PIRACY IN CARRIBEANZL ONE OF LAST WOODEN BATLESHIPS, BUHLVeSEE DVSTEAM, MioNR (nad continue in active servic untl 1921; EOKSTEAM;^ONE OF FEW WRECKS VISIBLE IN NEW ENGLAND WatERh outmoDed by iron and eviewers initials Geoff date B- 25 N0/4/18 *one of first 9ships-of -the line built by u.s, IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE