USS Watauga (1864)

History
United States
Name:	USS Watauga
Namesake:	The Watauga River in North Carolina and Tennessee
Laid down:	Never
Commissioned:	Never, although carried on Navy List 1864
Fate:	Construction contract cancelled 1866
General characteristics
Type:	Frigate
Propulsion:	Steam, one screw

USS Watauga was a proposed United States Navy screw frigate that was never built.

Projected as a screw frigate, Watauga was intended to be similar to, but somewhat larger than, the Java-class frigates (USS Antietam, USS Guerriere, USS Minnetonka, and USS Piscataqua).^[1]

Although first carried on the Navy List in 1864, Watauga was never laid down. The contract for her construction was cancelled in 1866.

Notes

1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, p. 125

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Chesneau, Roger, and Eugene M. Kolesnik. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. New York: Mayflower Books, Inc., 1979. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.