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| Originally named Neshaminy and later
Nevada |
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| Neshaminy, a screw frigate built by the government during
1863-65 and launched 5 October 1865 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, was a
wooden ship of the first rate. She had two horizontal direct-acting engines
of forty-eight inch stroke and eight Martin boilers. Her machinery was built
by the Etna Iron Works of New York. |
| The steamer was assigned a battery of two 100-pdr Parrott rifles,
one 6-pdr. rifle, ten 8 inch smoothbores, and four howitzers, but the battery
was never mounted. |
| From 1866 through 1868 Neshaminy was at the New York Navy
Yard for installation of her engines. In 1869 she was laid up in ordinary
at the yard. Her name was changed to Arizona on 15 May 1869, and then
to Nevada on 12 August 1869. |
| In 1869 she was examined by a board which found her hull so twisted
and her construction so poor that it was decided not to finish her. She remained
in ordinary at New York in an incomplete state until June 1874, when she
was sold to John Roach for $25,000, in partial payment for rebuilding monitor
Puritan. |
Displacement, 3,850; Length, 335'; Beam, 44'4";
Draft, 11'4" |
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Bibliography
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James L. Mooney, Dictionary of American Naval
Fighting Ships, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1991), Vol.1 -- Part A, p. 379 |
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James L. Mooney, Dictionary of American Naval
Fighting Ships, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office,
1970), Vol.5: N-Q, p. 47 and 50 |
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