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CSS General Sterling Price
CSS General Sterling Price
CSS General Sterling Price
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CSS General Sterling Price under way on a western river, date unknown.
The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Six, The Navies. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 85.
Namesake: Laurent Millaudon
Renamed: CSS General Sterling Price
Built: 1856
Acquired: January 25, 1862
Commissioned: March 25, 1862
Sank on Sandbar along Arkansas Shore
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Captured; June 16, 1862
Renamed: USS General Price
Decommissioned: July 24, 1865
Fate: Sold October 3, 1866
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Characteristics
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Type: Sidewheel Ram
Displacement: 483 tons
Length: 182 ft
Beam: 30 ft.
Draft: 9 ft. 3 in.
Power:
Propulsion:
Speed:
Armament
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Unknown
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Battles
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River Defense Fleet
Plum Point Bend
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Union Service
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Vicksburg
Red River Campaign
Escorted Troop Transports
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