Namesake: Cornelius Vanderbilt

Builder: J. Simonson

Laid down: 1856

Launched: 1857 at Greenpoint, NY

Acquired: 24 March 1862

Commissioned: September 1862

Decommissioned: 30 June 1866

In service: 13 October 1866

Out of service: 24 May 1867

Stricken: 1873 (est.)

Fate: Sold, 1 April 1873

Scrapped  in 1899

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Characteristics

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Displacement: 3,360 tons

Length: 331 ft.

Beam: 47 ft. 6 in.

Draught: 19 ft. 

Installed power: Twin vertical beam steam engines

Propulsion: Sidewheel

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