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| Name | USS Kearsarge |
| Namesake | Mount Kearsarge, later ones are named in honor of her. |
| Ordered | 1861 |
| Builder | Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine |
| Laid down | 1861 |
| Launched | 11 September 1861 |
| Commissioned | 24 January 1862 |
| Decommissioned | 26 November 1864 |
| Recommissioned | 1 April 1865 |
| Decommissioned | 14 August 1866 |
| Recommissioned | 16 January 1868 |
| Decommissioned | 11 October 1870 |
| Recommissioned | 8 December 1873 |
| Decommissioned | 15 January 1878 |
| Recommissioned | 15 May 1879 |
| Decommissioned | 1 December 1886 |
| Recommissioned | 2 November 1888 |
| Stricken | 1894 |
| Fate | Wrecked, 2 February 1894 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sloop-of-war |
| Displacement | 1,550 long tons (1,575 t) |
| Length | 201 ft 3 in (61.34 m) |
| Beam | 33 ft 8 in (10.26 m) |
| Draft | 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine/Sails |
| Speed | 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
| Armament | 2 × 11 in (280 mm) smoothbore Dahlgren guns, 4 × 32-pounder guns, 1 × 30-pounder Parrott rifle |
USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France during the American Civil War.