USS St. Louis
USS St. Louis
USS Baron DeKalb
Ordered: as St. Louis
Builder: James B. Eads Yard
St. Louis Missouri
Cost: $89,000
Laid Down: August 1861
Launched: October 12, 1861
at Carondelet, Missouri
Commissioned: January 31, 1862
Renamed: September 8, 1862
Struck: July 13, 1863
Identification: Yellow Band on Stacks
Fate: Sunk by mine, July 13, 1863
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Characteristics
Class and Type: City-Class River Casemate Ironclad
Displacement: 512 tons
Length: 175 ft.
Beam: 51 ft. 2 in.
Draught: 6 ft.
Propulsion: Steam Engine - Center Wheel
Speed: 9 mph
Armament:
January 1862
3 x 8-inch smoothbores
4 x 42-pounder rifles
6 x 32-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder rifle
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October 1862
3 x 8-inch smoothbores
2 x 42-pounder rifles
6 x 32-pounder fifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder rifle
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December 1862
2 x 10-inch smoothbores
3 x 8-inch smoothbores
2 x 42-pounder rifles
6 x 32-pounder rifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder rifle
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Early 1863
1 x 10-inch smoothbore
2 x 9-inch smoothbores
2 x 8-inch smoothbores
6 x 32-pounder rifles
2 x 30-pounder rifles
1 x 12-pounder rifle
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Battles
January 11, 1862 against CSN vessels
Demonstration during Battle of Belmont
Fort Pillow
Battle of Memphis
Bombarding positions up the White River, AR
Expedition up the Yazoo River
Rechristened USS Baron De Kalb
December 5, 1862 captured steamer Lottie
Bombarded Batteries at Drumgold's Bluff
Battle of Fort Hindman, AR
Battle of Fort Pemberton, Tallahatchie River
Battle of Haynes Bluff
Captured steamer Alonzo Child
Helped destroy Yazoo City Ship Yard
Expidition up the Yazoo River
Sunk by a torpedo one mile below Yazoo City
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