USS Princeton (1851)

History
United States
Laid down	June 1851
Launched	October 1851
Commissioned	18 May 1852
Decommissioned	10 June 1855
Out of service	9 October 1866
General characteristics
Displacement	1,370 tons
Length	177 ft 6 in (54.10 m)
Beam	32 ft 8 in (9.96 m)
Draft	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Propulsion	steam engine screw-propelled
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph)
Armament	six 32-pounder carronades four 8 in (203 mm) 58 cwt. smoothbore guns

USS Princeton was a large 1,370-ton steamer with powerful guns, some of whose timbers were those from the first USS Princeton, the U.S. Navy's first screw steam warship.

Princeton was originally assigned to sail with Admiral Matthew C. Perry's squadron to Japan, but broke down due to boiler problems just as the voyage was to start. She was laid up prior to the start of the American Civil War, but, when that war broke out, she was reactivated as a receiving ship at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.