Its designers and builders, Robert L. Stevens and Edwin Augustus Stevens, who proposed the ship in 1841
Ordered
By Stevens Battery Act of 1841
Awarded
1842
Builder
Construction was at Stevens family estate, Hoboken, New Jersey
1844 design builders: Robert L. Stevens and Edwin Augustus Stevens
1854 design builders: Robert L. Stevens and Edwin Augustus Stevens
1869 design builder: The State of New Jersey; George B. McClellan (engineer-in-charge)
Cost
Approximately $2,500,000 (USD) spent between 1841 and 1874; approximately $450,000 (USD) additional estimated to be required for launching ship when work ended in 1874
Laid down
1854
Launched
Never
Completed
Never
Commissioned
Never
Fate
Scrapped incomplete 1881
General characteristics (1844 design)
Type
Semisubmersible ironclad
Displacement
1,500 tons
Length
250 ft (76.2 m)
Beam
40 ft (12.2 m)
Installed power
900 ihp (671 kW)
Propulsion
Steam engine; screw-propelled
Speed
18 knots (estimated)
Armament
6 x large muzzle-loading cannons
Armor
4.5 in (11.4 cm) iron plate plus
14 in (35.6 cm) locust timber
General characteristics (1854 design)
Type
Semisubmersible ironclad
Displacement
4,683 tons
Length
420 ft (128.0 m)
Beam
53 ft 0 in (16.2 m)
Installed power
8,624 ihp (6,431 kW)
Propulsion
Eight steam engines, two screws, 1,000 tons coal
Speed
20 knots (estimated)
Armament
5 × 15-inch (381-mm) smoothbore guns
2 × 10-inch (254-mm) rifled guns
Ram bow
Armor
6.75 in (17.1 cm) iron plate
General characteristics (1869 design)
Type
Ironclad ram
Propulsion
Ten large-diameter boilers, two Maudsley and Field vertical overhead-crosshead engines, screw-propelled
Speed
15 knots (estimated)
Armament
never determined
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