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She was in 1861 laid down at the Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA, being sponsored by the misses Jane Coffin Colby and Sudan Paters Hudson part of the Ossipee-class with as sister ships the Adirondack, Ossipee and the Juniata, was launched on 20 November 1861, commissioned on 29 August a year later and sunk in 17 February 1864 when she was part of the blockade off Charleston by the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley using a spar torpedo. Her remains were largely broken up in the 70s-90s of the 19th century.
With a displacement of 1,240 long tons/1,260 tons were her dimensions 205’x 38’x 8’7” or 62 x 12 x 2,62 metres. Rigged like a bark with a hull designed by Lenthall. The by Isherwood designed machinery consisted of a 2 cylinder horizontal back-acting engine and 2 boilers supplying 715 ihp allowing a speed of 12knots. The crew numbered 160 men. The armament consisted of 1-100pdr Parrott rifle, 3-30pdr Parrott rifles, 1-11”Dahlgren smoothbore gun, 2-32pdr guns, 2-24pdr howitzers, 1-12pdr howitzer and one 1-12pdr rifle.
