I'm trying to make sure I have all the US ships (sloop and up) localized in the event of a Trent War. I'm also curious what the blockading stations (Gulf, Port Royal) and other stations (Pacific) would do in the event of war - e.g. would the Hampton Roads blockading force retreat up into the Chesapeake?
Here's what I have - locations all as of declaration of war or news arriving in Washington of DoW. Here I'm using an 8/9 Jan DoW and the news arriving via telegraph from Halifax on 21 Jan.
Ships of the Line
USS Vermont: Boston
All others no longer workable vessels
Frigates
Steam
USS Mississippi: Gulf (far to the east, away from Dunlop)
USS Susquehanna: Port Royal squadron
USS Powhatan: hunting down Confederate commerce raiders?
USS Wabash: Port Royal
USS Roanoke: Hampton Roads
USS Colorado: Gulf
USS Minnesota: Hampton Roads
USS Niagara: Gulf
Sail
USS Brandywine: Hampton Roads, storeship
USS Congress: Hampton Roads
USS Constitution: unavailable (towed out of the way of Confederate capture)
USS Independence: Pacific, recieving ship
USS John Adams: training ship, theoretically available (Newport RI)
USS Potomac: Storeship, Mobile Bay (thus captured or burned)
USS Sabine: Atlantic blockading squadron, somewhere (Port Royal?)
USS Santee: Gulf
USS St Lawrence: Port Royal
Sloops
Steam
USS Saranac: Pacific
USS Wyoming: Pacific
USS Tuscaroa: Southampton (captured)
USS Dacotah: Not in commission as of PoD (New York)
USS Seminole: Port Royal
USS Narragansett: Pacific
USS Saginaw: Hong Kong (captured)
USS Pocahontas: Port Royal
USS Brooklyn: Gulf
USS Hartford: Not out of Chesapeake (thus Farragut is not commander of the Gulf)
USS Richmond: repairs, NY Naval Yard
USS Lancaster: Pacific
USS Pensacola: sailing south for the Gulf (runs into Dunlop?)
USS Kearsarge: about to commission in Maine
USS Mohican: Port Royal
USS Iroquois: patrolling the Caribbean
USS Oneida: commission 28 Feb in NY
USS Wachusett: commission 3 Mar in Boston
USS Canadaigua: launch 28 Mar in Boston
USS Housatonic: commission 29 Aug in Boston
USS Juniata: launch 20 Mar in Boston
USS Adirondack:: commission 30 June in NY
Sail
USS Constellation: Mediterranean
USS Cyane: Pacific
USS Dale: Port Royal store/guardship
USS Decateur: Ordinary, Mare Island
USS Falmouth: Colon, storeship
USS Granite: just acquired (where?)
USS Jamestown: Port Royal
USS Marion: Gulf
USS Portsmouth: Gulf
USS Saratoga: Delaware
USS St. Louis: Philadelphia Navy Yard
USS St Mary’s: Pacific
USS Vincennes: Gulf
USS Warren: stores ship
Ironclads:
USS Monitor: building in NY
USS New Ironsides: building in Philadelphia
USS Galena: building in Mystic CT
Any I got wrong?
And the stations which need to be looked at:
1: What do all the Pacific ships do when the news comes in?
2: What would the Gulf blockading squadron do?
3: What would the Port Royal squadron do?
4: What would the Hampton Roads squadron do in the event of the British arriving off the Chesapeake?
5: Would any of the ships to the north become commerce raiders?
6: How would these various stations be informed of the war, and when would they find out?