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CSS Bienville

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Campaign Medal
Bienville Class Sidewheel Steamer:
  • Laid down, as a light-draft sidewheel river steamer, of yellow pine and white oak, 14 September 1861 at Bayou St. John, LA. by John Hughes & Co., cost $78,000
  • Boilers and engines were second-hand
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Completed 5 April 1862
  • Commissioned, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, destroyed, in 1862 in Lake Pontchartrain, LA.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 418t.
    Length 141'
    Beam 28'1"
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 11', loaded
    Speed 13kts
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    27 February 1862 - five 42-pdrs
    April 1862 - 5 42-pdrs, one small rifle
    Propulsion
    two high-pressure steam engines
    two boilers
    two sidewheels
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