GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
LENGTH: 280 feet
BEAM: 52 feet 2 inches
DRAFT: 17 feet
COMPLEMENT: 537
ARMAMENT:
Two 9-inch rifled muzzle-loaders
Five 8-inch rifled muzzle-loaders
Ten 68-pounder smoothbore guns
This was a powerful ship which most likely could have taken on most any U.S. ship at the time.
During the Virginius Affair, a lighter was sunk that blocked the drydock gates, just in case. Of course, by the time of the Spanish-American War, this was not the case. The American Navy was way better than the Spanish one.
This Was a Wakeup Call for the Government and the U.S. Navy. --Old B-Runner
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