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Name | USS Kearsarge |
Namesake | Mount Kearsarge, later ones are named in honor of her. |
Ordered | 1861 |
Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
Laid down | 1861 |
Launched | 11 September 1861 |
Commissioned | 24 January 1862 |
Decommissioned | 26 November 1864 |
Recommissioned | 1 April 1865 |
Decommissioned | 14 August 1866 |
Recommissioned | 16 January 1868 |
Decommissioned | 11 October 1870 |
Recommissioned | 8 December 1873 |
Decommissioned | 15 January 1878 |
Recommissioned | 15 May 1879 |
Decommissioned | 1 December 1886 |
Recommissioned | 2 November 1888 |
Stricken | 1894 |
Fate | Wrecked, 2 February 1894 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Sloop-of-war |
Displacement | 1,550 long tons (1,575 t) |
Length | 201 ft 3 in (61.34 m) |
Beam | 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m) |
Draft | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine/Sails |
Speed | 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
Armament | 2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns, 4 × 32-pounder guns, 1 × 30-pounder Parrott rifle |
USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War. Kearsarge was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. Subsequent ships were later named Kearsarge in honor of the ship.[1]