- USS Neshaminy (1865)
USS "Neshaminy" (1865) was a large and powerful 3,850-ton
frigate with a length of 335 feet that was under construction at thePhiladelphia Navy Yard when she was surveyed by Navy officials who found her construction work to be poor. Construction was halted by the Navy, which eventually sold her for scrap.Built in the Philadelphia Navy Yard
"Neshaminy", a screw
frigate built by theUnited States Navy during 1863–65 and launched5 October 1865 at thePhiladelphia 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–pounder
Parrott rifle s, one 6–pounder rifle, ten 8-inch smoothbores, and fourhowitzer s, but the battery was never mounted.Construction problems
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 that yard. Her name was changed to "Arizona"15 May 1869 , and to "Nevada"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 City in an incomplete state until June1874 , when she was sold to John Roach for $25,000, in partial payment for rebuilding monitor USS|Puritan|1864.See also
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