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Cumberland

USS Cumberland

Sunk

United States Navy

TypeSloop
WarAmerican Civil War
Main guns1 × 70-pounder gun

Sailing sloop-of-war. Rammed and sunk by Virginia at Hampton Roads with 121 of her crew.

"U.S. Frigate Cumberland, 54 Guns. The flag ship of the Gulf Squadron, Com. Perry". Lithograph, hand-colored. U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction number LC-USZC2-3119. U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C. Reproduction number NH 64089-KN. Photo: N. Currier (Nathaniel Currier, Lithographer), New York, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

  • 1842: 40 × 32 pdr (15 kg) guns, 10 × 42 pdr (19 kg) carronades
  • 1843: 36 × 32 pdr (15 kg) guns, 10 × 42 pdr (19 kg) carronades, 4 × 8 in (200 mm) "shell" guns
  • 1857: 2 x X-inch Dahlgren gun smoothbores on spar deck pivots, 20 IX-inch Dahlgren gun smoothbores
  • 1861: 1 x X-inch Dahlgren smoothbore fore spar deck pivot, 1 × "70-pounder" rifle on aft spar deck pivot, 20 IX-inch Dahlgren smoothbores
Laid down1824
Launched24 May 1842
Commissioned9 November 1842
Length175 ft (53 m)
Complement400 officers and men

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

24 May 1842

8–9 March 1862

Lt. George U. Morris (acting). Rammed and sunk fighting her guns; 121 lost and nearly 150 casualties in all