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CSS Anglo-Norman

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Side-wheel Steamer / Gunboat
  • Built at Algiers, LA., in 1850
  • Employed as a towboat by the Southern Steamship Co., New Orleans, LA.
  • Impressed for public service by order of the Confederate Secretary of War
  • The order was implemented by Brig. Gen. M. Lovell on 15 January 1862 when 14 ships were seized for the Mississippi River Defense Fleet for possible conversion to gunboats and rams.
  • At the time of the action at Ports Jackson and St. Philip, April 1862, Anglo-Norman was not mentioned as one of the River Defense Fleet
  • however, the gunboat Anglo-Norman is one of the 22 listed in the prize cases before arbitrators on 1 May 1862
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 558 t.
    Length 176'2"
    Beam 29'5"
    Depth of Hull unknown
    Draft 9'
    Speed unknown
    Complement 35
    Armament
    one 32-pdr gun
    Propulsion
    steam engine
    two side-wheels
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