CSS Mississippi

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CSS Mississippi

Namesake: Mississippi (state)

Builder: Nelson and Asa F. Tift

Laid Down: 14 October 1861

Launched: 24 April 1862

Fate: Burned to avoid capture, 25 April 1862

Characteristics

Displacement: 1,400 tons

Length: 250 ft.

Beam: 58 ft.

Draft: 15 ft.

Propulsion: steam, 3 screws

Armament

12 x 9-in Dahlgren guns

4 x 7-in Brooke rifles

4 x 6.4-in. Brooke rifles

Battles

Unknown

Luranghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. p 41-42, 130-132, 155-156,

160, 162-163