![]() USS Michigan, seen here after her name was changed to USS Wolverine in 1905.
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History | |
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Name | Michigan |
Ordered | 19 May 1839 |
Builder | Stackhouse and Tomlinson |
Laid down | 1839 |
Launched | 5 December 1840 |
Commissioned | 29 September 1844 |
Decommissioned | 6 May 1912 |
Renamed | Wolverine on 17 June 1905 |
Stricken | c. 12 August 1923 |
Fate | Scrapped in 1949 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 685 |
Length | 163 ft (50 m) |
Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × 330 ihp (250 kW) steam engines |
Speed | 10.5 kn (12.1 mph; 19.4 km/h) |
Capacity | 115 tons of coal |
Complement | 88 officers and men |
Armament |
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Notes |
USS Michigan was the United States Navy's first iron-hulled warship and served during the American Civil War. She was renamed USS Wolverine in 1905.[1]
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