CSS Selma (1856)
CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Selma was a coastwise packet built at Mobile, Alabama for the Mobile Mail Line in 1856. Little doubt now remains that she was originally named Florida. As the latter, she was inspected and accepted by Captain Lawrence Rousseau, CSN, on April 22, 1861, acquired by the Confederacy in June, cut down and strengthened by hog frames and armed as a gunboat — all, apparently, in the Lake Pontchartrain area. Her upper deck was plated at this time with ⅜ inch iron, partially protecting her boilers, of the low pressure type preferred for fuel economy and greater safety in battle. CSS Florida is cited on November 12, 1861 as already in commission and serving Commodore G. N. Rollins' New Orleans defense flotilla und
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CSS Selma (1856)
CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Selma was a coastwise packet built at Mobile, Alabama for the Mobile Mail Line in 1856. Little doubt now remains that she was originally named Florida. As the latter, she was inspected and accepted by Captain Lawrence Rousseau, CSN, on April 22, 1861, acquired by the Confederacy in June, cut down and strengthened by hog frames and armed as a gunboat — all, apparently, in the Lake Pontchartrain area. Her upper deck was plated at this time with ⅜ inch iron, partially protecting her boilers, of the low pressure type preferred for fuel economy and greater safety in battle. CSS Florida is cited on November 12, 1861 as already in commission and serving Commodore G. N. Rollins' New Orleans defense flotilla und
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El CSS Selma (inicialmente llamado CSS Florida) fue un ironclad confederado.
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1864-08-05
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1865-07-16
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*Sold into merchant service 16 July 1865
*Sunk 24 June 1868
Captured atBattle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864
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*2 × smoothbore cannons
*1 × smoothbore cannon
*1 × rifled cannon
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iron deck plating
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Confederate States
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Selma, July 1862
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CSS Selma was a steamship in t ...... w Orleans defense flotilla und
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El CSS Selma (inicialmente llamado CSS Florida) fue un ironclad confederado.
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CSS Selma (1856)
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