USS Adirondack (1862)

History
United States
Name	USS Adirondack
Namesake	The Adirondack Mountains
Builder	New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York
Laid down	1861
Launched	22 February 1862
Sponsored by	Miss Mary Paulding
Commissioned	30 June 1862
Out of service	23 August 1862
Fate	Wrecked 23 August 1862
General characteristics
Type	Screw sloop
Displacement	1,240 long tons (1,260 t)
Length	207 ft 1 in (63.12 m)
Beam	38 ft (12 m)
Draft	10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
Depth of hold	16 ft 10 in (5.13 m)
Propulsion	2 × 42 in (110 cm) cylinder, 30 in (76 cm) stroke horizontal back-acting steam engines 2 × Martin's patent boilers;[1] 1 × 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) screw propeller[1]
Sail plan	Sloop (auxiliary sials)
Speed	14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h)
Complement	160
Armament	2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore guns, 4 × 32-pounder smoothbore guns, 2 × 24-pounder smoothbore guns, 1 × 12-pounder smoothbore gun

The first USS Adirondack was a large and powerful screw-assisted sloop of war with heavy guns, contracted by the Union Navy early in the American Civil War. She was intended for use by the Union Navy as a warship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Her career with the Navy proved to be short, yet active and historically important. USS Adirondack was one of four sister ships which included the Housatonic, Ossipee and Juniata.