USS Arapahoe (1864)

USS Arapahoe was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate that was cancelled in 1866 without being completed.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Arapaho.

History
United States
Name:	USS Arapahoe
Namesake:	A variant spelling of Arapaho, a Native American tribe
Ordered:	1864
Fate:	Cancelled, 1866
General characteristics
Class and type:	Contoocook-class sloop-of-war[1] or frigate[2]
Displacement:	3,003 tons
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

Arapahoe 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 for the Union Navy late in the American Civil War. Because of the collapse of the Confederate States of America in 1865, plans for her construction were cancelled in 1866.

References

Notes

1. "Arapahoe". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and 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. (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.