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- Acquisition: Originally built, 1799, as a corvette; rebuilt, 1830, at Norfolk Navy Yard, by Government. Launched at Norfolk, 1829-30.
- Cost: $119,308.
- Description:
- Class: Sailing sloop
- Rate, rig, etc.: 4th; ship
- Tonnage: 700.
- Dimensions:
- Length, 127'
- Beam, 15' 6"
- Depth, 16'
- Draft: Provisioned and stored for six months, forward and aft, 16'.
- Speed: Maximum, 9 knots; average, 6 knots.
- Battery: May 28, 1862, 1 30-pdr. Dahlgren rifle, 1 30-pdr. Parrott rifle, 2 VIII-inch 55 cwt., 4 32-pdr. 33 cwt.; December 31, 1864, add 2 20-pdr. Dahlgren rifles.
- Disposition: Sold at public auction, October 5, 1867, at Boston, for $10,000.
- Remarks: Went out of commission, July 29, 1853; recommissioned, at Boston harbor, October 20, 1854. January 18, 1862, went out of commission; recommissioned, May 27, 1862. September 30, 1865, finally went out of commission, and was sold.
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