Essex | I 11-inch, IV 9-inch, I 60-pdr. Enterprise | Nipsic | +--------------------------------------------------- Narragansett| II 11-inch, IV 9-inch, II 20-pdrs. ----------------+--------------------------------------------------- 2d Class Corvettes. Alert | Ranger | Kansas | I 11-inch, II 9-inch, I 60-pdr. Saco | Shawmut | Yantic | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------- Paddle Steamers.| Ashuelot | IV 8-inch, II 60-pdrs., II 20-pdrs. Monocacy | +--------------------------------------------------- Michigan | VIII 20-pdrs. Rio Bravo | Howitzers. ----------------+--------------------------------------------------- Torpedo Vessels.| Alarm | I 15-inch. Intrepid | No guns. ----------------+------------------------------------- ---------------+-------------- TYPE AND NAME. | Displacement. ---------------+-------------- | Tons. Gun-boats. | Palos | 306 Dispatch | 730 Fortune | 306 Mayflower | 306 Leyden | 306 Nina | 306 Pinta | 306 Speedwell | 306 Triana | 306 Standish | 306 Catalpa | 191 Pilgrim | 168 ---------------+-------------- These Gun-boats are at present unarmed, and, with the exception of the Palos and Dispatch, are used as Tenders at dock-yards. The Palos is in service in China; the Dispatch is in service as a cruising gun-boat. TENNESSEE. Iron-braced, wooden, rapid steam frigate. Straight bow, strengthened and provided with a bronze ram; round stern, single screw, full sail-power. No heavy bow-fire. TRENTON. Iron-braced, wooden, first-class corvette (second-rate frigate). Ram bow, round stern, single screw, full sail-power. Bow-fire fully developed from four 8-inch rifles. Bower and sheet chains coming in on the berth-deck, leaving the forward part of the gun-deck clear for working the forward guns. Gun-deck battery of eight 8-inch rifles in broadside; spar-deck battery, two 8-inch pivot-guns forward giving bow and beam fire, and one 8-inch pivot-gun aft giving stern and beam fire. [Illustration: TRENTON.] POWHATAN. Old-fashioned wooden paddle-wheel frigate. ASHUELOT. MONOCACY. Iron, paddle-wheel, double-ender corvettes. These vessels were originally provided with a rudder at each end, but the forward one is removed. They can carry in addition to their present armament one 11-inch pivot forward and one 11-inch pivot aft. Musket-proof pilot-house on the hurricane-deck. [Illustration: ASHUELOT.] MICHIGAN. Old-fashioned iron, paddle-wheel gun-boat carrying a battery of boat-guns. RIO BRAVO.