USS Kearsarge (1861)

History
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]