CSS Arkansas
Namesake: State of Arkansas
Ordered: August 24, 1861
Builder: John T. Shirley, Memphis, TN
Laid down: October 1861
Launched: April 1862
Commissioned: April 25, 1862
Fate: Destroyed by her crew, August 6, 1862
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Characteristics
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Class & Type: Arkansas-class Ironclad
Displacement: 1,200 tons
Length: 165 ft.
Beam: 35 ft.
Draft: 11 ft. 6 in.
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 direct-acting steam engines
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Armament
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2 x 8 in. Columbiad smoothbore guns
4-5 x 6.4 in. rifled muzzle-loading guns
2 x 9 in. Dahlgren smoothbore guns
1-2 x 32-pdr smoothbores
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Battles
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Battle with USS Carondelet
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Current, Richard N. "Arkansas." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p 54-55
Luraghi, Raimundo. The History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. p 173-181
Stern, Philip Van Doren. The Confederate Navy A Pictorial History. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. p 104-106
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