USS San Jacinto

Wrecked

Type	Frigate
War	Second Opium War
Main guns	6 × 8″ guns

Screw frigate and Commodore James Armstrong's flagship in the East Indies. Her boats fought at the Barrier Forts. In 1861 she stopped the British mail steamer Trent and took off two Confederate envoys, nearly causing a war with Britain.

The USS San Jacinto (right) stops the British packet steamer RMS Trent. When the San Jacinto removed two Confederate diplomats from the Trent, it touched off the Trent Affair, the closest that Great Britain came to joining the American Civil War. Taken from the 1887 book The Youth's History of the U Photo: Edward Sylvester Ellis, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

6 × 8 in (200 mm) Smoothbore guns

Builder	New York Navy Yard
Laid down	August 1847
Launched	16 April 1850
Commissioned	late 1851/early 1852
Length	234 ft (71 m)
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Complement	235 officers and enlisted

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

Career

Launched

16 April 1850

Battle of the Barrier Forts

Survived

16–24 November 1856

Too deep to get close; sent her boats and men

Fate

Wrecked

Ran aground, 1 January 1865