imported>UndercoverClassicist: Don't think this hatnote is helpful: it seems to suggest that these ships were known as ''Neshaminy'', and I can't see that anyone would land here while looking for e.g. the "real" USS Arizona.

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Don't think this hatnote is helpful: it seems to suggest that these ships were known as ''Neshaminy'', and I can't see that anyone would land here while looking for e.g. the "real" USS Arizona.

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{{Short description|American screw frigate (launched 1865)}}
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|Ship name = USS ''Neshaminy''
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'''USS ''Neshaminy''''' was a large and powerful 3,850-ton [[screw frigate]] with a length of 335 feet that was under construction at the [[Philadelphia Navy Yard]] when she was surveyed by Navy officials who found her construction work to be poor. Construction was halted by the Navy, which eventually sold her for scrap.

==Built in the Philadelphia Navy Yard==
'''''Neshaminy''''', a screw [[frigate]] built by the [[United States Navy]] during 1863–65 and launched 5 October 1865 at the [[Philadelphia Navy Yard]], was a wooden ship of the first rate. She had two horizontal direct-acting engines of forty-eight-inch stroke and eight Martin boilers. Her machinery was built by the [[Etna Iron Works]] of New York.

The steamer was assigned a battery of two 100–pounder [[Parrott rifle]]s, one [[6–pounder]] rifle, ten 8-inch smoothbores, and four [[howitzer]]s, but the battery was never mounted.

==Construction problems==
From 1866 through 1868 ''Neshaminy'' was at the [[New York Navy Yard]] for installation of her engines. In 1869 she was laid up in ordinary at that yard. Her name was changed to ''Arizona'' 15 May 1869, and to ''Nevada'' 12 August 1869.

In 1869 she was examined by a board which found her hull so twisted and her construction so poor that it was decided not to finish her. She remained in ordinary at New York City in an incomplete state until June 1874, when she was sold to John Roach for $25,000 ({{Inflation|US|25,000|1874|fmt=eq|cursign=$}}), in partial payment for rebuilding monitor {{USS|Puritan|1864}}.

==See also==

{{Portal|American Civil War}}
*[[List of steam frigates of the United States Navy]]
*[[Bibliography of early United States naval history#American Civil War|Bibliography of American Civil War naval history]]

==References==
{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n3/neshaminy.htm}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19991013045407/http://history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-n/neshamny.htm Photo gallery] at Naval Historical Center

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USS Neshaminy - Revision history

imported>UndercoverClassicist: Don't think this hatnote is helpful: it seems to suggest that these ships were known as ''Neshaminy'', and I can't see that anyone would land here while looking for e.g. the "real" USS Arizona.