USS Tahgayuta (1863)

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Name: USS Tahgayuta
Builder: Hazelhurst and Wiegard, Baltimore, Maryland (proposed)
Fate: Cancelled
General characteristics
Class and type: Contoocook-class sloop-of-war[1] or frigate[2]
Displacement: 3,003 tons
Length: 290 ft (88 m) (waterline)
Beam: 41 ft (12 m)
Height: 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) mean
Propulsion: 4 Martin boilers (2 superheaters), 1-shaft, horizontal return connecting rod engine
Sail plan: bark-rigged[3] or ship-rigged[4]
Speed: 12.5 knots
Complement: 350
Armament: 1 x 5.3-inch (135-millimeter) Parrott rifled muzzle loader gun
14 x 9-inch (229-millimeter) smoothbore guns
3 x 12-pounder guns

USS Tahgayuta was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate of 1863 that was cancelled.

Tahgayuta was a wooden-hulled bark-rigged[5] (or ship-rigged[6]) Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war[7] or steam frigate[8] with a single funnel slated to be built in 1863 for the Union Navy by Hazelhurst and Wiegard of Baltimore, Maryland. Plans for her construction were cancelled.

Notes

  1. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t1/tahgayuta.htm.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, p. 125.
  3. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t1/tahgayuta.htm.
  4. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, p. 125.
  5. Per Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t1/tahgayuta.htm.
  6. Per Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, p. 125, whether she would have considered a sloop or frigate depended on whether or not she would have been built with a spar deck, without which she have been a sloop, but it is unknown whether she would have had a spar deck or not because she was never built and because her completed sisters differed in this regard.
  7. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/t1/tahgayuta.htm.
  8. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, p. 125.

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