Nashville-class ironclad

Class overview
Name	Nashville-class ironclad
Operators	Confederate States Navy
Built	1863–64
In service	1864–65
Planned	3
Completed	1
Scrapped	1
General characteristics
Type	Casemate ironclad
Tonnage	1100 tons
Length	271 ft (83 m)
Beam	62 ft 6 in (19.05 m)
Draft	10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Installed power	2 Sidewheel paddles
Propulsion	2 Steam engines
Speed	Unknown
Complement	Unknown
Armament	3 × 7 in (180 mm) Brooke rifles 1 × 24-pounder howitzer
Armor	2–6 inches (51–152 mm)

The Nashville-class ironclad was a class of three side-wheel casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Only the lead ship of the class, Nashville, was commissioned into Confederate States Navy service; two sister ships were broken up on the stocks before they were completed.

Ships

Construction data

Ship	Builder [1]	Launched [1]	Completed [1]	Fate
CSS Nashville	Montgomery, Alabama	Mid-1863	1864	Surrendered, 10 May 1865, sold for scrap, 22 November 1867
Unnamed		March 1863	Constructive total loss when launched	Broken up, April 1864
Unnamed	Oven Bluff, Alabama	Never finished

Notes

1. Silverstone, pp. 154–155

References

• 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.

 This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships .The entry can be found here.