USS Arapahoe (1864)

USS Arapahoe (1864)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Arapaho.

Career (United States)
Name:	USS Arapahoe
Namesake:	A variant spelling of Arapaho, a Native American tribe
Ordered:	1864
Fate:	Cancelled, 1866
General characteristics
Class & type:	Contoocook-class sloop-of-war or frigate
Displacement:	3,003 tons
Length:	290 ft (88 m) (waterline)
Beam:	41 ft (12 m)
Height:	15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) mean
Propulsion:	4 Martin boilers (2 superheaters), 1-shaft, horizontal return connecting rod engine
Sail plan:	bark-rigged or ship-rigged
Speed:	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h; 14.4 mph)
Complement:	350
Armament:	1 × 5.3 in (135 mm) Parrott rifled muzzle loader gun 14 × 9 in (230 mm) smoothbore guns 3 × 12-pounder guns

USS Arapahoe was a proposed United States Navy screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate that was cancelled in 1866 without being completed.

Arapahoe was a wooden-hulled, bark-rigged (or ship-rigged) Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war or steam frigate with a single funnel slated to be built for the Union Navy late in the American Civil War. Because of the collapse of the Confederate States of America in 1865, plans for her construction were cancelled in 1866.