CSS Missouri-- Part 1: Dates and Stats

From Wikipedia.

Laid down 14 April 1863 in Shreveport, Louisiana, commissioned 12 September 1863.  Surrendered 3 June 1865.  Sold 19 November 1865.

Casemate ironclad, 183 feet long with a 53.8 foot beam.  Could make 5.3 knots.

Mounted one 11-inch Dahlgren smoothbore, one 9-inch Dahlgrean smoothbore and one 32-pounder smoothbore.

The iron casemate was made of railroad tracks and extended 130 feet so part of its paddlewheels were exposed.

--Old B-Runner