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CSS Huntsville

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Ironclad floating battery:
  • Laid down in 1862 at the Confederate Naval Works, Selma, AL.
  • Launched, 7 February 1863
  • Delivered and commissioned USS Huntsville, 1 August 1863, at Mobile while only partially armored and fitted out with defective engines and incomplete armament
  • Huntsville was assigned to guard the waters around Mobile
  • After the Battle of Mobile Bay Huntsville escaped up the Spanish River, on 5 August 1864
  • Final Disposition, scuttled to prevent capture, 12 April 1865, following the surrender of the city of Mobile
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 150' or 152'
    Beam 32'9"
    Draft 7'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Speed 4 kts
    Complement 40
    Armament
    one 6.4-inch Brooks muzzle-loading rifle
    three 4-inch 32-pdr smoothbores
    Propulsion steam
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    Huntsville
    098684302    		 120k
    Namesake
    Huntsville is a city in the Appalachian region of northern Alabama. It is the county seat of Madison County and home of Redstone Arsenal.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Huntsville
    098684301    		 151k Sketch of CSS Huntsville or CSS Tuscaloosa laying off city of Mobile, AL., 26 September 1864, author unknown
    US National Archives Record Group 45.    		 Robert Hurst
    CSS Huntsville
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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