Her building was ordered on 29 April 1816 by the US Congress and she was laid down in September two years later at the Boston Navy Yard and although around 1825 being completed she was not launched until on 15 September 1848. Despite she was not commissioned but kept in ordinary for the next coming years. The outbreak of the Civil War caused finally her commissioning on 30 January 1862 as a store and receiving ship at Port Royal, South Carolina. On the 24th February she departed Boston towed by the Kensington and the same day was she heavily damaged in a heavy storm and with the Kensington forced to her go. Despite the damaged she arrived safely on 12 April in her destination. Since 1864 she served at New York in the same role until she was stricken on 19 December 1902 and sold on 27 April a year later. She belonged to the 74-gun ships of the line-class North Carolina or also reported as Delaware-class with a measurement of 2.633 tons burthen and as dimensions 197’1.5”x 53’6”x 21’6” or 60,084 x 16,3 metres. Her crew as a ship of the line numbered 820 men.
