USS Minnesota was a wooden steam frigate in the United States Navy. Launched in 1855 and commissioned eighteen months later, the ship served in east Asia for two years before being decommissioned. She was recommissioned at the outbreak of the American Civil War and returned to service as the flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. This model of the USS Minnasota is a 1/600 scale Union steam frigate. She had 2 × 10 in guns, 28 × 9 in guns, 14 × 8 in guns.
She was 264’ long x 51’4” in beam, displaced about 3307 long tons, had a maximum speed of about 12.5 kts under steam power but was also sail powered and about 646 officers and men as crew.