Talk:USS Henry Clay

The only one?
I wonder if someone can help me. The statement that the USS Henry Clay (SSBN-625) is the only US ship named after Henry Clay is troubling me. There was a Union ship named Henry Clay that was sunk while running the blockade at Vicksburg during the Civil War. Please see the text accompanying Image:VicksburgBlockade.jpg. It says "all USS except as noted", but I cannot figure out where its noted or not. At first I thought the transports were perhaps not USS, but the Tuscumbia is listed as a transport and IS named USS T.

Is the USS Henry Clay (SSBN-625) really the only one? If so, any way of determining this would help me with this image and other articles. Thanks for any help - PAR 03:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Good question! It seems to me that the transports were not commissioned (not USS), and that Tuscumbia was a gunboat, not a transport .  In any case, DANFS only lists the submarine Henry Clay.  I'd love to prove the official Navy history wrong, but I don't have a lot of hope that we can do so. ;-> ➥the Epopt 04:43, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

I think thats probably right. Looking at it again, it says:


 * Louisville; Mound City; Pittsburgh; Carondelet; transports Silver Wave, Forest Queen & Henry Clay; and Tuscumbia.

Notice the placement of the colons, the Silver Wave, Forest Queen & Henry Clay are grouped together. Thanks for the help, I didn't know the Tuscumbia was a gunboat. PAR 04:55, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Funny, I linked here trying to find out what happened to the crew of the civil war transport, then the discussion page to ask this question. I checked and found this and a few other mentions in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Robert Underwood Johnson, "The flag steamer Benton and the Tuscumbia gallantly opened fire close under the Point of Rocks at 8:15 with their bow and broadside guns, rounded to, heading up the river, the enemy firing on them with musketry."KVND 10:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by KVND (talk • contribs)