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CSS General Sterling Price

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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