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CSS / USS Little Rebel
Little_Rebel
Little_Rebel
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Built by: R. E. and A. N. Watson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Launched: 1859
Acquired: January 1862
Commissioned: 1862
Fate: Captured, 6 June 1862
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Union Service
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Acquired: 6 June 1862
Commissioned: 9 January 1863
Decommissioned: 24 July 1865
Fate: Sold into Merchant Service
29 November 1865
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Characteristics
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Type: Cotton-clad Ram
Displacement: 161 tons
Draft: 12 ft.
Propulsion: Steam Engine, screw propolled
Speed: 12 Knots
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Armament
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3 x 12-pounder guns
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Battles
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Confederate Service
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Battle of Fort Pillow
Plum Point Bend
First Battle of Memphis
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Union Service
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Red River
Fort De Russey
Mississippi River Squadron​
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