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USS Susquehanna

Ship
USS Susquehanna, a sidewheel steam frigate, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Susquehanna River, which rises in Lake Otsego in central New York and flows across Pennsylvania and the northeast corner of Maryland... Wikipedia
Launched: April 5, 1850
Beam: 45′
Length: 257′
Construction started: 1847
Armament: 2 × 150-pounder Parrott rifles; 12 × 9 in (230 mm) Dahlgren smoothbore guns; 1 × one 12-pounder rifle
Decommissioned: 14 January 1868