&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Susquehanna_sidewheel_steam_frigate_by_Gutekunst,_1860s.jpg) Susquehanna
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| History | |
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| Name | USS Susquehanna |
| Builder | New York Navy Yard |
| Laid down | 1847 |
| Launched | 5 April 1850 |
| Commissioned | 24 December 1850 |
| Decommissioned | 14 January 1868 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Steam Frigate |
| Tonnage | 2,450 long tons (2,489 t) |
| Length | 257 ft (78 m) |
| Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m) |
| Depth of hold | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Propulsion | Steam engine, |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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USS Susquehanna, a sidewheel steam frigate, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Susquehanna River, which rises in Lake Otsego in central New York and flows across Pennsylvania and the northeast corner of Maryland emptying into the Chesapeake Bay.
Her keel was laid down by the New York Navy Yard in 1847. She was launched on 5 April 1850 and was commissioned on 24 December 1850, Captain John H. Aulick in command.