From the Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks.
Confederate.
Three screw ironclad gunboat, 1,400 tons.
Length 260 feet, beam 58 feet, draft 12 feet 6 inches, depth 15 feet, speed estimated 14 kno0ts, armor 3.75-inch iron, 16 boilers, designed to carry 20 guns.
Launched on April 14. 1862, in Jefferson City, Louisiana, upstream from New Orleans.
Set afire by Confederate Commander Arthur Sinclair and drifted down the Mississippi River from New Orleans on April 26, 1862, and sank.
No guns or ammunition were aboard when destroyed.
--Old B-Runner
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