. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . King Henry VIII or a Spanish galleon of King Philip. But what a beauti-ful sight she presents; the long clean sweep of her spar-deck, her standing rigging as taut as fiddle-strings,and all her running gear coiled and flemished down—no wonder that the Wabash was the pride of thenavy, and that her crew pointed to the name on their caps with pride when they were ashore. The Wabash was a steam frigate of the first rating. No finer vessel could have been found in any foreigii navy. Shedisplaced 3,274 tons, carried two* 10-inch pivot gun
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . King Henry VIII or a Spanish galleon of King Philip. But what a beauti-ful sight she presents; the long clean sweep of her spar-deck, her standing rigging as taut as fiddle-strings,and all her running gear coiled and flemished down—no wonder that the Wabash was the pride of thenavy, and that her crew pointed to the name on their caps with pride when they were ashore. The Wabash was a steam frigate of the first rating. No finer vessel could have been found in any foreigii navy. Shedisplaced 3,274 tons, carried two* 10-inch pivot guns on her spar-deck and a broadside of fourteen 8-inchguns; on her gun-deck she carried twenty-eight 9-inch guns and two 12-pounders. On the deck stands alittle grouj) of three—Admiral Du Pont, who was in command of the South Atlantic l)lockading s(|uadron,her Captain, C. R. P. Rodgers, and Commander Corbin. Until the ironclad appeared, such shij)s as theWabash, though small in number, gave to the United States navy a prestige wherever the flag was ®I|r 3ttinnl Nang -^ ^ -^ -^ -^ ^ laid up at various dockyards awaiting repairs of a more orless extended nature. Of the forty-two ships that could bemade ready for duty, the majority were steam-propelled ves-sels of the latest improved types. The United States had beenone of the first world-powers to realize the value of steam asan auxiliary to sail. In the twenty years previous to the open-ing of the Civil War, practically a new navy had been con-structed, ranking in efficiency third only to those of Englandand France. There were many of the older vessels includedin the active list, and some still in commission that bore his-toric names and had seen service in the War of 1812. Theyhad been the floating schools for heroes, and were once morecalled to serve their tvn-n. The newer ships comprised a noble list. Within five yearsprevious to the outbreak of hostilities, the magnificent steamfrigates Mcrrimac, Niagara, Colorad
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