CSS Manassas
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For other ships with the same name, see CSS Manassas (clipper).
CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New Orleans commission merchant, Captain John A. Stevenson, acquired her for use as a privateer after she was captured by another privateer (later gunboat) CSS Ivy. Her fitting out as Manassas was completed at Algiers, Louisiana; her conversion to a ram of a radically modern design made her the first ironclad ship built for the Confederacy.
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Confederate States of America | |
Name | Manassas; originally Enoch Train |
Namesake | Battle of First Manassas; Enoch Train |
Owner | Boston Steam Tow-Boat Co.[1] |
Builder | James. O. Curtis, Medford, Massachusetts[1] |
Launched | 1853[1] or 1855 |
Commissioned | September 12, 1861 |
Decommissioned | April 24, 1862 |
Fate | Sunk in battle April 24, 1862 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Steam tug,[1] Ironclad |
Displacement | 387 tons |
Tons burthen | 384+1⁄2 tons[1] |
Length | 143 ft (44 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10 m) |
Draft | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine |
Complement | 36 officers and men |
Armament | One 64-pounder Dahlgren, later replaced by one 32-pounder |
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