Arkansas-class ironclad

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]

The C. S. S. Arkansas by R. G. Skerrett
Class overview
Name: Arkansas-class ironclad
Builders: John T. Shirley, Memphis, Tennessee
Operators: Confederate States Navy
Built: 1861–1862
In service: 1862
Planned: 2
Completed: 1
Lost: 2
General characteristics
Type: Casemate ironclad
Length: 165 ft (50 m)
Beam: 35 ft (11 m)
Draft: 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m)
Installed power: 2 propellers
Propulsion: 2 Steam engines
Speed: 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph)
Complement: 200 officers and enlisted men
Armament: Designed for 6–8 guns

Ships
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 N/A Burned to prevent capture, 5 June 1862

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

References
  1. Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). Civil War Navies 1855–1883. The U.S. Navy Warship Series. New York: Routledge. pp. 150–51. ISBN 0-415-97870-X.

Further reading
  • 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.
  • Still, William N., Jr. (1985). Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads (Reprint of the 1971 ed.). Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0-87249-454-3.
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