An item dated Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 July reported that on last Wednesday the American steam warship USS Kearsage captain Stanell arrived in the roads of Vlissingen.(1)
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1. Of the Mohican-class sloops, building ordered in 1861, on stocks at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, USA in 1861, launched on 11 September 1861, commissioned on 24 January 1862, destroyed the CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France on 19 June 1864 and finally wrecked on a reef off Roncador Cay on 2 February 1894. Armament consisted of 2-11”/28xm smoothbore Dahlgren guns, 4-32pd guns and 1-30pd Parrott rifle
