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CSS Tuscaloosa (floating battery)

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Civil War Medal
Iron-clad Floating Battery
  • Laid down by the Confederate Navy Works, Selma, AL. in 1862
  • Launched, 7 February 1863
  • Designed as a ram to mount four guns and to have the protection of 4-inch iron plating supplied by Schofield & Markham and Shelby Iron Co.
  • Engined before launching, Tuscaloosa proceeded under her own power to Mobile for completion
  • Under CDR. C. H. McBlair, CSN, she served in the Mobile area until Mobile's capitulation, 12 April 1865
  • Final Disposition, sunk by Confederates in the Spanish River 12 miles north of Mobile
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 152'
    Beam 34'
    Depth of Hull 10'6"
    Draft 8'
    Speed 3kts
    Complement 120
    Armament
    one 6.4" rifle
    three 32-pdrs (planned)
    Propulsionsteam
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    Huntsville
    098684301    		 151k Sketch of CSS Tuscaloosa or CSS Huntsville laying off city of Mobile, AL., 26 September 1864, author unknown
    US National Archives Record Group 45.    		 Robert Hurst
    CSS Tuscaloosa
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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