USS Willamette (1865)

Career (United States)
Name: USS Willamette
Namesake: The Willamette River in Oregon
Ordered: 1865
Laid down: Never
Fate: Cancelled 1866
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[1] or ship-rigged[2]
Speed:12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement:350
Armament:
  • 1 × 5.3 in (135 mm) Parrott rifled muzzle loader gun
  • 14 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore guns
  • 3 × 12-pounder guns

USS Willamette was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate that was cancelled in 1866 without ever having been laid down.

Willamette was a wooden-hulled bark-rigged[1] (or ship-rigged[2]) Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war[1] or steam frigate[2] with a single funnel slated to be built for the Union Navy late in the American Civil War. The contract for her construction was cancelled in 1866 before her keel was laid.

References

Notes
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Willamette". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.
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