The U.S.S. Mississippi is featured on the 60d. stamp, which shows the steam frigate in a typhoon, 1854, from a lithograph by Currier and Ives, after a drawing by Brown Jr. She was one of the two steam frigates John Ericsson succeeded in having built with screw propulsion, telescopic funnels and fans for forced draught fire. Launched at the Federal Navy Yard, Philadelphia in 1841. A three-masted, sidewheel, barque rigged steamship, her dimensions were 229 x 40 x 19 ft. Displacement at mean draft was 3,824 tons and load draft 194 ft. She had 2 ten-inch and 8 eight-inch shell guns. Two side-lever engines with cylinders 75 ins in diameter and 7 ft. stroke.