.jpg) Nevada, formerly Neshaminy, at New London Naval Station, ca. 1872
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| History | |
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.svg){kind=small}  United States | |
| Name | USS Neshaminy |
| Namesake | Neshaminy Creek |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Laid down | date unknown |
| Launched | 5 October 1865 |
| In service | not placed in service |
| Stricken | circa 1869 |
| Fate | Sold in June 1874 |
| Notes | Construction abandoned due to poor workmanship |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | screw frigate |
| Displacement | 3,850 tons |
| Length | 335' |
| Beam | 44' 4" |
| Draft | 11' 4" |
| Propulsion | two horizontal direct-acting engines of forty-eight-inch stroke and eight Martin boilers |
| Complement | not known |
| Armament | assigned but not installed: two 100–pounder Parrott rifles, one 6–pounder rifle, ten 8-inch smoothbores, and four howitzers |
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.