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CSS Texas was the third and last Columbia-class (or Tennessee-class according to some sources [1]) casemate ironclad built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Not begun until 1864 and intended to become part of the James River Squadron, she saw no action before being captured by Union forces while still fitting out.
The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.
CSS Texas is the name of two ships in the Confederate States Navy: CSS Texas (1863), a steam commerce raider better known as the Spanish screw corvette Tornado; CSS Texas (1865), an ironclad ram unfinished at the end of the war
In addition to the ships included in the report of the committee, the C.S. Navy also had one ironclad floating battery, presented to the Confederacy by the state of Georgia, one ironclad ram donated by the state of Alabama, and numerous commerce raiders making war on Union merchant ships.
The first battle of the war involving both the Union Army and Navy. Battle of Cockle Creek: October 5, 1861 October 5, 1861 Battle of the Head of Passes: October 12, 1861 October 12, 1861 First use of ironclad ram in the war Battle of Port Royal: November 7, 1861 November 7, 1861 First major naval battle of the war Battle of Cockpit Point ...
Ray Richey of the Texas Civil War Museum stands with a coat worn by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on Wednesday, January 30, 2013. The coat and some swords are being added to the collection.
The Chilean Blanco Encalada (1875) was the first ironclad warship sunk by a self-propelled torpedo in 1891. [2] Central battery armored frigates. Almirante Cochrane class. Almirante Cochrane (1874) - alienated in 1933; Blanco Encalada (1875) - sunk in 1891 in the Battle of Caldera Bay, during Chilean Civil War of 1891; Ironclad turret ship
Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...