USS Mound City

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USS Mound City on the Western Rivers during the Civil War

History

Launched: October 1861

Commissioned: January 16, 1862

Decommissioned: Sold November 9, 1865

Fate: Scrapped

Characteristics

Displacement: 512 long tons

Length: 175 ft.

Beam: 51 ft.

Draft: 6 ft.

Propulsion: Steam-driven sternwheel

Speed: 9 knots

Complement: 251

Armour

Casemate: 2.5 in

Pilothouse: 1.25 in.

Battles

St. Charles

Steele's Bayou Expedition

Grand Gulf

Red River Expedition

Ordance

January 1862

3 x 8-inch smoothbores

4 x 42-pounders rifles

6 x 32-pounder rifles

1 x12-pounder rifle

Mid 1863

3 x 8-inch smoothbores

1 x 50-pounder rifle

2 x 42-pounder rifles

6 x 32-pounder rifles

1 x 30-pounder rifle

1 x 12-pounder rifle

Early 1864

3 x 8-inch smoothbores

4 x 9-inch smoothbores

1 x 100-pounder rifle

1 x 50-pounder rifle

3 x 32-pounder rifles

1 x 30-pounder rifle

1 x 12-pounder rifle