USS Kearsarge (1861)

History
NameUSS Kearsarge
NamesakeMount Kearsarge, later ones are named in honor of her.
Ordered1861
BuilderPortsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine
Laid down1861
Launched11 September 1861
Commissioned24 January 1862
Decommissioned26 November 1864
Recommissioned1 April 1865
Decommissioned14 August 1866
Recommissioned16 January 1868
Decommissioned11 October 1870
Recommissioned8 December 1873
Decommissioned15 January 1878
Recommissioned15 May 1879
Decommissioned1 December 1886
Recommissioned2 November 1888
Stricken1894
FateWrecked, 2 February 1894
General characteristics
TypeSloop-of-war
Displacement1,550 long tons (1,575 t)
Length201 ft 3 in (61.34 m)
Beam33 ft 8 in (10.26 m)
Draft14 ft 3 in (4.34 m)
PropulsionSteam engine/Sails
Speed11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h)
Armament2 × 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.

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