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Career | |
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Ordered: | |
Laid down: | October 1862 |
Launched: | 2 March 1865 |
Commissioned: | 1867 as Rochambeau |
Fate: | sold to France |
Struck: | 1874 |
General Characteristics | |
Displacement: | 7060 tons |
Length: | 377.3 feet |
Beam: | 72.8 feet |
Draft: | 21 feet |
Armament: | four 15-inch smoothbore cannon, 11 11-inch smoothbore cannon |
Webb began seeking buyers for the warship, the design of which was already beginning to influence naval architecture worldwide. Otto von Bismarck expressed some interest, and the thought of Prussia armed with such a vessel prompted France to hurriedly buy her and commission her in 1867 as Rochambeau. The French scrapped her in 1874.
References
This article includes information collected from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.