CSS Manassas

Autor:

Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1904.

Credit:

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #: NH 608.

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Opis:

CSS Manassas, formerly the steam propeller Enoch Train, was built at Medford, Massachusetts, by J. O. Curtis in 1855. A New Orleans commission merchant, Captain John A. Stevenson, acquired her for use as a privateer and fitted her out at Algiers, Louisiana as an ironclad ram of radically modern design. Covered with 1½-inch iron plating, her hull projected only 2½ feet above the water, and her plated top was convex causing cannon shot to glance off harmlessly.

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Public domain