U.S.S. Kearsarge
1864
(Aquarius AQ-S-4)
- Class: Mohican - 2 screw sloops of 1858-1861
- Displacement: 1,550 tons
- Dimensions: 198'6" x 33'10" x 15'9"
- Machinery: 1 screw, 2 horizontal back-acting engines,
2 boilers; IHP 842 = 11 knots
- Armament: 2-11" smooth bore, 4-32 pdr guns
- Complement: 160
- Builder: Portsmouth (Woodruff)
- Laid down: May 1861
- Launched: 5 Oct 1861
- Commissioned: 24 Jan 1862
- Notes: Bark rigged. Sister Mohican buit 1858-59.
Kearsarge built under 1861 emergency program.
Re-engined 1887 with engines from Nantasket.
- Service: European squadron 1862-66. Sank CSS Alabama
in engagement off Cherbourg, 19 Jun 1864. South Pacific, 1868-70.
Asiatic Station, 1873-77. Atlantic Station, 1879-82. Mediterranean 1883-86.
West Indies 1888-94. Wrecked on Roncador Reef, Central America, 2 Feb 1894.
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