About: CSS Tuscarora

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CSS Tuscarora was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was about 100 feet (30 m) long, displaced 400 short tons (357 long tons), and was manned by a 25-man crew. The vessel was purchased in 1861 from the by Confederate authorities in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armed with two cannons, Tuscarora was engaged in the Battle of the Head of Passes on October 12, 1861. Ordered up the Mississippi River to Columbus, Kentucky, in November, she was destroyed on November 23, 1861, when a fire of unknown origin started in her boilers and spread to the ship's munitions.

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  • CSS Tuscarora was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was about 100 feet (30 m) long, displaced 400 short tons (357 long tons), and was manned by a 25-man crew. The vessel was purchased in 1861 from the by Confederate authorities in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armed with two cannons, Tuscarora was engaged in the Battle of the Head of Passes on October 12, 1861. Ordered up the Mississippi River to Columbus, Kentucky, in November, she was destroyed on November 23, 1861, when a fire of unknown origin started in her boilers and spread to the ship's munitions. (en)
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  • Accidentally burned, November 23, 1861
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  • * 1x rifled 32-pounder * 1x 8-inch columbiad (en)
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  • Confederate States (en)
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  • Purchased from civilian service, 1861 (en)
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  • Tuscarora (en)
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  • Southern Steamship Company (en)
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  • CSS Tuscarora was a sidewheel steamer that briefly served as a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy at the beginning of the American Civil War. She was about 100 feet (30 m) long, displaced 400 short tons (357 long tons), and was manned by a 25-man crew. The vessel was purchased in 1861 from the by Confederate authorities in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armed with two cannons, Tuscarora was engaged in the Battle of the Head of Passes on October 12, 1861. Ordered up the Mississippi River to Columbus, Kentucky, in November, she was destroyed on November 23, 1861, when a fire of unknown origin started in her boilers and spread to the ship's munitions. (en)
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  • CSS Tuscarora (en)
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  • Tuscarora (en)
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