USS Pittsburgh
USS Pittsburg on the Western Rivers during the Civil War.
Pittsburg and Carondelet destroy Confederate Batteries below New Madrid
Namesake: The City of Pittsburgh
Launched: October 1861
Commissioned: January 25, 1862
Decommissioned: November 29, 1865
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1865
Characteristics
Displacement: 512 tons
Length: 175 ft.
Beam: 51 ft. 6 in.
Draft: 6 ft.
Propulsion: Stern Wheeler
Complement: 251
Armour:
Casemate: 2.5 in.
Pilothouse: 1.25 in.
Battles:
Plum Point Bend
Fort Pillow
Memphis
Steele's Bayou Expedition
Grand Gulf
Red River Expedition
Armament:
January 1862
3 x 8-inch smoothbores
2 x 42-pounder rifles
6 x 32-pounder rifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder smoothbore
May 1863
2 x 9-inch smoothbores
3 x 8-inch smoothbores
2 x 42-pounder rifles
4 x 32-pounder rifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder smoothbore
December 1863
2 x 9-inch smoothbores
2 x 9-inch rifles
2 x 8-inch smoothbores
1 x 100-pounder rifle
4 x 32-pounder rifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder smoothbore
September 1864
2 x 9-inch smoothbores
2 x 9inch rifles
2 x 8-inch smoothbores
1 x 100-pounder rifle
2 x 32-pounder rifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder smoothbore