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CSS Carondelet

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Bienville Class Sidewheel Steamer:
  • Laid down around 14 September 1861 as a light-draft sidewheel river steamer, of yellow pine and white oak, at Bayou St. John, LA. by John Hughes & Co. and Acting Constructor S.D. Porter, CSN,
  • Launched, in January 1862
  • Completed and put into service as CSS Carondelet in March 1862, LT. W. Gwathney, CSN, in command
  • On 4 April CSS Carondelet, accompanied by CSS Oregon and CSS Pamlico, engaged the Federal gunboats USS New London, USS John P. Jackson and USS Hatteras at Pass Christian, MS. The Confederates were unable to prevent the landing of 1,200 Union men at the Pass and the destruction of the camp there.
  • Final Disposition, destroyed by her officers on Lake Pontchartrain just before the fall of New Orleans to escape capture by the Federals
    Specifications:
    Displacement 418t.
    Length 141'
    Beam 28'1"
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 11', loaded
    Speed 13kts
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    27 February 1862 - five 42-pdrs
    April 1862 - five 42-pdrs, one 32-pdr rifle
    Propulsion
    two steam engines
    two boilers
    two sidewheels
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