CSS Arkansas
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Not to be confused with USS Arkansas.
CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in 1862, she saw combat in the Western Theater when she steamed through a United States Navy fleet at Vicksburg in July. Arkansas was set on fire and destroyed by her crew after her engines broke down several weeks later. Her remains lie under a levee above Baton Rouge, Louisiana at 30°29′14″N 91°12′5″W.
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A drawing of C. S. S. Arkansas by R. G. Skerrett | |
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Confederate States | |
Name | Arkansas |
Namesake | State of Arkansas |
Ordered | August 24, 1861 |
Builder | John T. Shirley, Memphis, Tennessee |
Cost | CS$76,920 |
Laid down | October 1861 |
Launched | April 1862 |
Commissioned | April 25, 1862 |
Fate | Destroyed by her crew, August 6, 1862 |
General characteristics (1862) | |
Class and type | Arkansas-class ironclad |
Displacement | 1,200 long tons (1,200 t) (designed) |
Length | 165 ft (50 m) |
Beam | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) (designed) |
Speed | 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) |
Complement | 232 officers and men |
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