Laid down in 1864 and launched on 13 April of the same year at the yard of Alexander Swift and Company at Cincinnati, Ohio, accepted the next year on 7 June by the navy but immediately laid up as the Civil War ended. Begin 1868 was she bought back by the yard which sold her on 2 April for 400,000 dollars to Peru and renamed Atahualpa where she early January of the next year arrived. Scuttled on 16 January 1881 to prevent being captured by Chile although she was at that moment all ready in a worse condition.
With a displacement of 2,100 long tons/2,134 tons were her dimensions 223’x 43’4” x 13’6”. The steam engine allowed a speed of 8 knots. Her crew numbered 85 men in US navy service. The armament consisted of 2-15” Dahlgren guns. The armour consisted of 1.5” deck while the gun turret and the pilot house were protected by 11” and the hull by 5”.
