USS Wachusett (1861)

History
United States
Name	USS Wachusett the
Namesake	Mount Wachusett in north central Massachusetts
Laid down	June 1861 at the Boston Navy Yard
Launched	10 October 1861
Commissioned	3 March 1862
Decommissioned	September 1885
Fate	Sold 30 July 1887
General characteristics
Type	Sloop-of-war
Displacement	1,032 tons
Length	201 ft 4 in (61.37 m)
Beam	33 ft 11 in (10.34 m)
Draft	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth of hold	16 ft (4.9 m)
Propulsion	sail and steam engine backup
Speed	11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph)
Armament	two 30-pounder Parrott rifles one 20-pounder Parrott rifle four 32-pounder guns one 12-pounder rifle two 11-inch Dahlgren smoothbores

USS Wachusett – the first U.S. Navy ship to be so named – was a large (1,032-ton), Mohican-class steam sloop-of-war that served the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was outfitted as a gunboat and used by the Navy as part of the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

When the war was over, Wachusett continued to serve the Navy, protecting American interests in both the Atlantic Ocean as well as the Pacific Ocean until she was finally decommissioned.