USS Chattanooga (1864)

Chattanooga as designed.
History
United States
Name	USS Chattanooga
Namesake	Chattanooga, Tennessee
Builder	William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia
Yard number	126
Laid down	1863
Launched	13 October 1864
Commissioned	16 May 1866
Decommissioned	3 September 1866 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Fate	Sunk by ice, December 1871 Hulk, sold January 1872
General characteristics
Type	Wooden screw frigate
Displacement	3,043 long tons (3,092 t)
Length	315 ft (96.0 m) (Length of deck)
Beam	46 ft (14.0 m)
Draught	20 ft 6 in (6.2 m)
Installed power	2,000 ihp (1,500 kW)
Propulsion	1 shaft 2 × horizontal back-acting steam engines 8 × boilers
Sail plan	Ship rig
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Armament	8 × 8-inch (203 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns 3 × 60-pounder Parrott rifles

USS Chattanooga was constructed during the final years of the American Civil War, but was not commissioned because the war was winding down in the Union’s favor. She was eventually placed into reserve until she was holed by ice in 1871.