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CSS New Orleans

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Civil War Medal
Floating Battery:
  • Fitted out at New Orleans, LA. 1861, LT. S.W. Averett CSN in command
  • New Orleans featured two small boilers with pump connections for repelling boarders by drenching them with scalding water from her hoses
  • New Orleans deployed in the Mississippi River in time to assist joint army-navy operations at Island Number Ten. and New Madrid, Missouri, from March 12 to April 7, 1862.
  • Final Disposition, 0n the final day of the Battle of Island Number Ten, the Confederates sank New Orleans
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Draft unknown
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    one 9" gun
    seventeen 8" guns
    two 32-pdr rifles
    Propulsion steam
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    098685201    		 202k Woodcut of the floating battery CSS New Orleans/font> Robert Hurst
    CSS New Orleans
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