Namesake: State of Tennessee

Builder: Henry D. Bassett

Laid Down: October 1862

Launched: February 1863

Commissioned: 16 February 1864

Captured: At the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864

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U.S. Navy

Acquired: 5 August 1864

Commissioned: 5 August 1864

Decommissioned: 19 August 1865

Fate: Sold for scrap, 27 November 1867

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Characteristics

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Type: Casemate Ironclad

Displacement: 1,273 Tons

Length: 209 ft.

Beam 48 ft.

Draft: 14 ft.

Installed Power: 4 boilers

Propulsion: 2 Shafts

2 Steam Engines

Speed: 5 Knots

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