USS Cumberland

Sunk

Type	Sloop
War	American Civil War
Main guns	1 × 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 down	1824
Launched	24 May 1842
Commissioned	9 November 1842
Length	175 ft (53 m)
Complement	400 officers and men

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

Career

Launched

24 May 1842

Battle of Hampton Roads

Sunk

8–9 March 1862

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