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Stevens Battery
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The Stevens Battery was an early design for a type of ironclad, proposed for use by the United States Navy before the American Civil War. One full-sized example was begun but never completed due to lack of funding.
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Name | Stevens Battery |
Namesake | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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