- References
{{Other ships|USS Arapaho}}{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2012}}{{Infobox ship career| Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1865}} | Ship name=USS Arapahoe | Ship namesake=A variant spelling of Arapaho, a Native American tribe | Ship ordered=1864 | Ship fate=Cancelled, 1866
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class=Contoocook-class sloop-of-war[1] or frigate[2] | Ship type= | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=3,003 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 290|ft|m|abbr=on}} (waterline) | 41|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 15|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} mean | Ship draft= | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=4 Martin boilers (2 superheaters), 1-shaft, horizontal return connecting rod engine | Ship sail plan=bark-rigged[1] or ship-rigged[2] | 12.5|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship complement=350 | 5.3|in|mm|0|abbr=on}} Parrott rifled muzzle loader gun- 14 × {{Convert|9|in|mm|abbr=on}} smoothbore guns
- 3 × 12-pounder guns
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}} | 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[1] (or ship-rigged[2]) Contoocook-class screw sloop-of-war[1] or steam frigate[2] 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. References - Notes
1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite DANFS |title=Arapahoe |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a10/arapahoe.htm | accessdate=28 May 2012}}
2. ^1 2 3 Per Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905, p. 125, whether she would have considered a sloop or frigate depended on whether or not she would have been built with a spar deck, without which she have been a sloop, but it is unknown whether she would have had a spar deck or not because she was never built and because her completed sisters differed in this regard.
- Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last1=Chesneau |first1=Roger |last2=Kolesnik |first2=Eugene M. |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905 |year=1979 |publisher=Mayflower Books, Inc |location=New York |isbn=0-8317-0302-4 |lastauthoramp=yes}}
- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a10/arapahoe.htm}}
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