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Pensacola 1886

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
	Pensacola		Pensacola N Yd / Washington N Yd		15.8.1859	16.9.1861	TS 11.1898, receiving ship 7.1901

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3000
Displacement full, t
Length, m	70.3 pp
Breadth, m	13.6
Draught, m	5.66
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 4-cyl Dickerson HDA, 2 water-tube boilers
Power, h. p.
Max speed, kts	8.8
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	1 x 1 - 279/15 Dahlgren SB, 16 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB
Complement	~300

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Project history

Large corvette classified as sloop of Hartford group. Building of Pensacola was unusual process in any case. She was launched 15.8.1859 and commissioned without engines 5.12.1859 and sailed for Washington N Yd for installing machinery. Again Pensacola was commissioned 16.9.1861 but engines were incomplete and tried until 3.1.1862. As result of experimental engines she had worst machinery in US Navy of that time and was one of slowest US naval ships.

Modernizations

1862: + 6 x 1 - 229/15 Dahlgren SB, 1 x 1 - 163/22 100pdr Parrott rifled

~1865: engines were replaced by 2-cyl HRCR, max speed was 8.5kts

1878: boilers were replaced by 4 new, ship became 2-funneled.

Naval service

Pensacola served as TS since 11.1898 and in July 1901 became a receiving ship. She was stricken 23.12.1911.