USS Roanoke-- Part 21: General Characteristics as Frigate and Monitor

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS (as a frigate)

Length:  263.8 feet

Beam:  51.4 feet

Complement:  674

Armament:  

One 10-inch Dahlgren gun

Twenty-eight 9-inch Dahlgren guns

Fourteen 8-inch Dahlgren guns

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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS (as a monitor)

Complement:   347

Armament (in three turrets)

Two 15-inch Dahlgren guns

Two 150-pdr.  Parrott rifles

Two 11-inch Dahlgren guns

--Old B-Runner