City class ironclad
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | James Buchanan Eads |
| Operators: | United States Navy |
| Built: | 1861-1862 |
| In commission: | 1862-1865 |
| Completed: | 7 |
| Lost: | 2 |
| Preserved: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Ironclad river gunboat |
| Displacement: | 512 tons |
| Length: | 175 ft (53 m) |
| Beam: | 51 ft 2 in (15.6 m) |
| Draught: | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine |
| Speed: | 4 knots |
| Complement: | 175 officers and men |
| Armament: | six 32 pounder cannons, three 8" smoothbore cannons, four 42 pounder rifled cannons, one 12 pounder howitzer |
| Armor: | ironclad |
The City class Ironclads were American Civil War-era ironclad warships, designed by Samuel M. Pook and built by James B. Eads in 1861-1862 for the United States Navy. The City class Ironclads supported the Union Army in campaigns in the western theater of operations, operating on bodies of water in the Mississippi River system. The wooden hulled, armored gunboats were built in Carondelet, Missouri and Mound City, Illinois from August,1861 to January,1862.The members of the class were:
USS Carondelet (1861)
USS St. Louis (1861) (renamed USS Baron De Kalb)
USS Cairo (1861)
USS Pittsburgh (1861) (often spelled Pittsburg)
USS Mound City (1862)
USS Cincinnati (1862)
USS Louisville (1862)
Two of the class, USS Cairo and USS Baron De Kalb were lost to naval mines on the Yazoo River in 1862. USS Cairo was raised in 1964 and is now located at the Vicksburg National Military Park. The remaining members of the class were sold off in 1865, following the cessation of hostilities. [1]
