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USS Neshaminy, a 3850-ton steam frigate, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, as part of a Civil War program of large, very fast, steam cruisers. Launched in October 1865, she was moved to the New York Navy Yard for installation of her engines, but was never completed. In 1869, she was twice renamed: initially Arizona and finally Nevada. Under the latter name, she remained laid up incomplete at New York, and at Groton, Connecticut, until sold for scrapping in June 1874.
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Photo #: NH 102414 New London Naval Station, Groton, Connecticut ("Thames Navy Yard") USS Nevada (ex-Neshaminy) laid up at the station pier, circa 1871-73, with USS Dictator "in ordinary" at the right. Stereograph photo by E. Ayer, Norwich, Connecticut. Courtesy of the Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT., 1990. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 44KB; 740 x 440 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 57271-KN (Color) "Ammonoosuc and Neshaminy Class" Colored lithograph, after a drawing by Captain Melancthon B. Woolsey, USN, published by the Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co., 71 Broadway, New York, circa the later 1860s. It depicts the fast cruisers USS Ammonoosuc (1868-1883) and Neshaminy (1865-1874). The same print has also been used to depict the never-launched USS Connecticut, ex-Pompanoosuc. The original print's mount bears the notation: "From Boynton's History of the U.S. Navy". U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 485 pixels |
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