The USS Queen of the West was a sidewheel steamer ram ship and the flagship of the United States Ram Fleet and the Mississippi Marine Brigade. It was built...
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Charles R. Ellet (category People of Pennsylvania in the American Civil War)
officer of the ram fleet as part of the Mississippi Marine Brigade under his uncle Alfred W. Ellet. He commanded the ram ships USS Queen of the West, USS Switzerland...
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United States Ram Fleet (category Ships of the United States Army)
ships: USS Avenger USS Dick Fulton USS Lancaster USS Lioness USS Mingo USS Monarch USS Queen of the West - flagship USS Samson USS Switzerland USS T. D...
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24, 1862 CSS Roanoke, screw steamer, destroyed: April 4, 1865 CSS Queen of the West CSS Sampson, side-wheel river steamer CSS Savannah, steamer, foundered:...
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the ensuing 13 months. Her first action of the Vicksburg Campaign came in mid-July when she joined the ironclad USS Carondelet and the USS Queen of the...
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Black Terror (ship) (category Ships of the Union Navy)
control the Mississippi River and had made two attempts to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1862. Early the next year, the ram USS Queen of the West moved...
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February 1863, to support the naval ram USS Queen of the West, which was operating against Confederate shipping. After Queen of the West was disabled and captured...
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Era No. 5 (redirect from USS Era No. 5 (1860))
(24 km) above the mouth of the Black River, came upon and was captured by the USS Queen of the West. After Queen of the West was lost the same day, her...
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USS Queen of France (1777) USS Queen of the West (1854) USS Queenfish (SS-393/AGSS-393, SSN-651) USS Queens (APA-103) USS Quentin Walsh (DDG-132) USS Quest...
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Charles Ellet Jr. (category Members of the American Philosophical Society)
Battle of Memphis as captain of USS Queen of the West with his brother Alfred W. in command of the USS Monarch. The Ellets had not coordinated a plan of attack...
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in the battle on USS Queen of the West. During this complete Union victory, Queen of the West and Monarch both rammed and sank the Confederate flagship...
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1998 USS Pequod – American submarine, 2010: Moby Dick, 2010 Poseidon – ocean liner/cruise ship, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (based on the RMS Queen Mary)...
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steamer USS Queen of the West, and the ironclad gunboats USS Benton, USS Cairo, USS Carondelet, USS Louisville, and USS St. Louis in the Battle of Memphis...
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the First Battle of Memphis. General Sumter rammed and seriously damaged the sidewheel paddle steamer USS Queen of the West, but eventually most of the...
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expedition sent up the Yazoo River after her, disabling USS Carondelet in the river and chasing USS Queen of the West and USS Tyler back down the river. Arkansas...
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in Lake Superior Bay". Twin Cities. 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2023-04-27. "U.S.S. Essex". Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved...
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arrived at the mouth of the Yazoo in early December 1862, including USS Queen of the West. Marmora helped refloat Queen of the West after the latter vessel...
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National Civil War Naval Museum (category Naval museums in the United States)
Mississippi. Then in the darkness, two Union Navy ships attacked it. U.S.S. Queen of the West attempted to ram Arkansas. As the two vessels lay side to...
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Mississippi Marine Brigade (category Ships of the United States Army)
accompanied the USS Cairo up the Yazoo River. The Cairo was struck by a 'torpedo' or naval mine and began to sink rapidly. The Queen of the West was able...
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Laurent Millaudon (steamboat) (redirect from USS General Price)
the two Confederate vessels were entangled, Federal rams attacked them mercilessly. General Price collided with the Federal ram USS Queen of the West...
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CSS Colonel Lovell (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
USS Queen of the West, and immediately struck again by USS Monarch, both of the Ellet fleet. Colonel Lovell sank in deep water in the middle of the river...
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USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere was a battle between an American and British ship during the War of 1812, about 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Halifax...
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and USS Queen of the West, they returned up the Yazoo to destroy the "infernal machines." During this early mine sweeping operation, one of the torpedoes...
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USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface...
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Alfred W. Ellet (category People of Illinois in the American Civil War)
Ellet, Jr. led the rams in the First Battle of Memphis as captain of USS Queen of the West with Alfred W. in command of the USS Monarch. The Ellets had not...
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Gray Ghost (redirect from The Gray Ghost)
Ghost of Gonzaga" USS Enterprise (CV-6), US Aircraft Carrier USS Pensacola (CA-24), US Heavy Cruiser USS Iowa (BB-61), US Battleship RMS Queen Mary, an...
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steam through the line of Flag Officer Davis' slower ironclads and run down the Confederate steamers. His flagship USS Queen of the West headed straight...
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Kennedy "Big Lizzie" – HMS Queen Elizabeth "Big Mamie" – USS Massachusetts "The Big Nasty" – USS Nassau "The Big Stick" – USS Theodore Roosevelt; based...
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Confederate schooner captured by USS Coeur de Lion while enforcing the blockade off Machodoc Creek, Virginia. USS Queen of the West (1854) | United States Navy...
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Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a retired British passenger ship converted into a floating hotel. Originally built for the Cunard Line, the ship was operated...
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