USS Tahgayuta (1863)

History
United States
Name:	USS Tahgayuta
Ordered:	1863
Builder:	Hazelhurst and Wiegard, Baltimore, Maryland (proposed)
Fate:	Cancelled
General characteristics
Class and type:	Contoocook-class sloop-of-war[1] or frigate[2]
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 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.

References

Notes

1. "Tahgayuta". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History & Heritage Command. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
2. 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.

Bibliography

• Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.