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CSS Charleston

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Iron-clad Screw Steamer:
  • Laid down in December 1862 as an iron-clad screw steamer for the State of South Carolina at Charleston, S.C. by James M. Eason
  • Known as the Ladies gunboat because of the funding by the city's "Ladies' Gun-boat Association"
  • Completed in September 1863, CDR Isaac N. Brown, CSN in command
  • CSS Charleston served as the flagship of the Confederate Navy's Charleston Squadron together with the rams CSS Palmetto State and CSS Chicora
  • Final Disposition, CSS Charleston was set on fire and blown up in the Cooper River on the night of 17/18 February 1865 to prevent her capture by the Union Army
    Specifications:
    Displacement 610 t.
    Length 189'
    Beam 34'
    Draft 23'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Speed 6kts
    Complement 150
    Armor 4"
    Armament
    two 9" smoothbore Dahlgren guns
    four 7" 178mm muzzle-loading Brooks rifles
    Propulsion steam
    single propeller
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