USS Wanaloset
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Wanaloset |
| Namesake | Possibly a variant spelling of Wonalancet (ca. 1619-1697), a leader of the Penacook Indian Confederacy |
| Builder | Hazelhurst and Wiegard, Balitmore, Maryland (proposed) |
| Laid down | Probably never |
| Launched | Never |
| Commissioned | Never, although carried on Navy List January 1865 |
| Stricken | ca. 1867 |
| Fate | Cancelled |
| Notes | Only engines were completed |
| 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 |
| Speed | 12.5 knots |
| Complement | 350 |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 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 |
| Notes | Engines were used in USS Pensacola |
USS Wanaloset, also spelled USS Wanalosett, was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate that appears never to have been laid down
Wanaloset was a bark-rigged Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war[3] or steam frigate[4] scheduled to be built at Baltimore, Maryland, by the firm of Hazelhurst and Wiegard. Although carried on the Navy List of January 1865, she was one of six units of her class that were concelled; her keel apparently never was laid down and her hull certainly never was built. Her engines, however, were completed, and they were installed in the screw steamer USS Pensacola.
The name Wanaloset was dropped from the Navy List about 1867.
See also
Notes
- ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships 1860-1905 at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w2/wanaloset.htm.
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, p. 125.
- ^ Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships 1860-1905 at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w2/wanaloset.htm.
- ^ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905, p. 125.
References
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.- Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.