I don't know the entire crew, but I do own a cutlass engraved with lt jl shorren from the 1862 USS Essex.
in 1958,uss Essex 's home port was mayport,fl.
USS Hunchback was created on 1862-01-03.
USS Cairo was created on 1862-01-25.
USS Monitor was created on 1862-02-25.
a crew of about 2,700
The USS Monitor was commissioned on January 30, 1862.
USS New Ironsides was created on 1862-08-21.
USS Enterprise, USS Lexington, USS Saratoga, HMS Ark Royal, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Hornet, USS Yorktown, USS Essex, USS Nimitz,USS Ronald Reagan, and many others.
The Ironclad CSS Virginia (ex-Merrimack) , The Cumberland , The USS Congress , The USS Monitor and The USS Minnesota
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December 31, 1862 was the date that it sank.
No. The USS Essex (LHD-2) is an Amphibious assault ship which normally carries a Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked. It could however be given a mission that required large numbers of personnel from other services.