The Arkansas-class ironclads were a class of two casemate ironclads ordered by the Confederate States Navy in 1861 to operate in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War.[1]

Ships

Construction data
Ship name Builder[1] Laid down[1] Launched[1] Commissioned[1] Fate[1]
CSS Arkansas John T. Shirley, Memphis, Tennessee October 1861 22 April 1862 26 May 1862 Destroyed to prevent capture, 6 August 1862
CSS Tennessee — Burned to prevent capture, 5 June 1862

Notes

  1. Public Domain This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Silverstone, pp. 150–151

Bibliography

  • Bisbee, Saxon T. (2018). Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-81731-986-1.
  • Canney, Donald L. (2015). The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7643-4824-2.
  • Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). Civil War Navies 1855–1883. The U.S. Navy Warship Series. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-97870-X.
  • Still, William N. Jr. (1985) [1971]. Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0-87249-454-3.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas-class_ironclad
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