The Ships of the United States Navy: An Historical Record of Those Now in Service And of Their Predecessors of the Same Name, 1776-1915
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Like her predecessor, the third New York, she never was completed. She was built by the government at the New York navy yard, her keel being laid in 1863. She was one of the first rate screw sloops authorized by Congress during the war, of 3177 The Ships of tpie United States Navy [3 tons tonnage, 312 feet 6 inches length, and 47 feet breadth. Her engines were of the horizontal back action type, of 36 inches stroke, and were built by the Etna Iron Works of New York at a cost of $385,000. She ha...d four main and two super-heating boilers. Her proposed battery (December 9, 1864) was two 30- pounder Parrott rifles, one 60-pounder Parrott, two loo-pounder Parrotts, sixteen 9-inch smooth-bores, two 24-pounder howitzers, one i2-pounder rifle, and one 12-pounder smooth-bore. The New York was carried on the Navy Register until 1888, when she was broken up on the stocks. The third New York was a sailing ship-of-the-line, one of the vessels authorized by the Act of April 29, 1816. She was a ship of 2633 tons, built of wood, and of the following dimensions : length, 196 feet 3 inches; breadth, 53 feet; depth, 22 feet.
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