Martin Berg Fogg, Pvt, USMC, Mexican-American War, USS Pennsylvania & USS Macedonian, Served 1845-1848 Last Enlistment

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 about Martin P Fogg
Name: Martin Fogg
Death Date: 31 Mar 1855
Cemetery: MT. Moriah Naval Plot
Cemetery Address: 62nd St & Kingsessing Ave Philadelphia, PA 19142
Buried At: Section 2 Row 9 Site 24

Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-1999 about Martin Berg Fogg
Name: Martin Berg Fogg
Birth Date: 1805
Death Date: 31 Mar 1855
Age: 50
Military Branch: Marines
Veteran of Which War: Mexican-American War
Cemetery Name: Mount Moriah Cemetery
Cemetery Location: Delaware

U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1940 about Martin Berg Fogg
Name: Martin Berg Fogg
Muster Date: Jul 1841
Enlistment Date: 29 Jul 1841
Rank: Private
Station: Recruiting Rendezvous New York

U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1940 about Martin B Fogg
Name: Martin B Fogg
Muster Date: Jul 1842
Enlistment Date: 29 Jul 1841
Rank: Private
Station: On Board The Us Ship Pennsylvania

USS Pennsylvania was a three-decked 140-gun ship of the line of the United States Navy, named for the state of Pennsylvania. She was the largest sailing warship ever built for the Navy, and the equivalent of a first-rate of the British Royal Navy, but her only cruise was a single trip from Delaware Bay to Chesapeake Bay.

Pennsylvania was one of the "nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each" authorized by the US Congress on 29 April 1816. She was designed and built by Samuel Humphreys in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Her keel was laid in September 1821, but tight budgets slowed her construction, preventing her being launched until 18 July 1837. She had three complete gun decks and a flush spar-deck and her hull was pierced for 136 guns.

Exploding shell guns were replacing solid shot by the time Pennsylvania was fitting out. A Bureau of Ordnance Gun Register for 1846 records her armament as follows:

Spar deck: two 9 pounder (4 kg) cannons and one small brass swivel.
Main deck: four 8 inch (203 mm) chambered cannons received from Norfolk in 1842, and thirty-two 32 pounder (15 kg) cannons.
Middle deck: four 8 inch chambered cannons received from Norfolk in 1842, and thirty 32 pounder cannons.
Lower deck: four 8 inch chambered cannons and 28 × 32 pounder cannons.

Pennsylvania shifted from her launching site to off Chester, Pennsylvania, on 29 November 1837 and was partially manned there the following day. Only 34 of her guns were noted as having been mounted on 3 December 1837. She stood downriver for New Castle, Delaware, 9 December, to receive gun carriages and other equippage before proceeding to the Norfolk Navy Yard for coppering her hull. She departed Newcastle on 20 December 1837 and discharged the Delaware pilot on the 25th. That afternoon she sailed for the Virginia Capes. She came off the Norfolk dry dock on 2 January 1838. That day her crew transferred to Columbia.

Pennsylvania remained in ordinary until 1842 when she became a receiving ship for the Norfolk Navy Yard. She remained in the yard until 20 April 1861 when she was burned to the waterline to prevent her falling into Confederate hands.

U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1940 about Martin B Fogg
Name: Martin B Fogg
Muster Date: Jun 1843
Enlistment Date: 29 Jul 1841
Rank: Private
Station: Board Uss MacEdonian

The second USS Macedonian, was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate bearing 36-guns of the US Navy and was rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, beginning in 1832; and was launched and placed in service in 1836, Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macedonian_%281836%29

U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1940 about Martin B Fogg
Name: Martin B Fogg
Muster Date: May 1848
Enlistment Date: 29 May 1845
Rank: Private
Station: Marine Barracks Pensacola

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