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USS Tahgayuta (1863)

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History
United States
NameUSS Tahgayuta
Ordered1863
BuilderHazelhurst and Wiegard, Baltimore, Maryland (proposed)
FateCancelled
General characteristics
Class and typeContoocook-class sloop-of-war[1] or frigate[2]
Length290 ft (88 m) (waterline)
Beam41 ft (12 m)
Height15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) mean
Propulsion4 Martin boilers (2 superheaters), 1-shaft, horizontal return connecting rod engine
Sail planbark-rigged[1] or ship-rigged[2]
Speed12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement350
Armament

USS Tahgayuta was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate of 1863 that was cancelled.

Tahgayuta 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 in 1863 for the Union Navy by Hazelhurst and Wiegard of Baltimore, Maryland. Plans for her construction were cancelled.

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Notes
  1. ^ a b c d "Tahgayuta". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d 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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