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    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...
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    deployed three fire rafts, which were ignited and followed the ironclad ram CSS Manassas into the action. The attack occurred after moonset in the early hours...
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    CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was...
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  • name "Manassas" Manassas, Georgia, United States, a small town Manassas (band), a 1970s rock band Manassas (album), the debut album by Manassas CSS Manassas...
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    provided her engines. Known in the shipyard as Oreto and initially called CSS Manassas by the Confederates, the ship was the first of several foreign-built...
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    scuttled: April 12, 1865 CSS Louisiana, twin screw and double center-wheel steamer, ironclad, destroyed: April 28, 1862 CSS Manassas, screw steamer, ironclad...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Jamestown
    CSS Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Virginia...
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  • was an American shipowner and merchant. Enoch Train may also refer to: CSS Manassas, originally named Enoch Train, an 1855 twin-screw towboat SS Enoch Train...
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    early in the war had converted a tugboat into an armored vessel. As CSS Manassas, she was actually the first armored vessel to go into combat in the war...
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    J. Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens...
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  • Civil War. He participated in the engagement with the Confederate ram CSS Manassas during the Battle of the Head of Passes on October 12, 1861, the artillery...
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    by the Virginia Navy. She was commissioned into the Confederate navy as CSS United States, but was later scuttled by Confederate forces. The U.S. Navy...
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  • Locomotive of Kiowa Creek CSS Louisiana George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, explorers lost on Mount Everest in 1924 CSS Manassas Mary Celeste USS Milwaukee...
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    CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in...
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    work on construction and converting wooden ships. On 12 October 1861, CSS Manassas became the first ironclad to enter combat, when she fought Union warships...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Sea Bird
    CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy. Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina...
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    Navy: three ironclads, CSS Manassas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; two more traditional warships, converted from merchantmen, CSS McRae and Jackson, and...
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    who moved towards Fort St. Philip and engaged the ironclads CSS Louisiana and CSS Manassas. Varuna fired into the duel, damaging both the Union and Confederate...
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    warship until the American Civil War, when she was sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia in battle of Newport News, Virginia, in 1862. Congress was launched...
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    surviving Civil War-era ironclads in existence: USS Monitor, CSS Neuse, USS Cairo, and CSS Muscogee. Images of USS Cairo USS Cairo in her final resting...
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  • CSS Grampus was a stern-wheel river steamer built in 1856 at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, for civilian employment. Taken by the Confederate Army in early...
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    American Civil War she was taken into service by the Confederate Navy as CSS General Sterling Price. On 6 June 1862, she was sunk at the First Battle...
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    Dupuy de Lôme had designed an ironclad with a ram. The quick success of CSS Virginia's ramming attack on USS Cumberland at the Battle of Hampton Roads...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS Ellis
    CSS Ellis (later USS Ellis) was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was lost during...
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    J. Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens...
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    famed for being the first to come to the aid of RMS Titanic survivors. CSS Manassas, the first ironclad of the civil war, formerly the icebreaker Enoch Train...
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    Ships involved in the ensuing conflict at the location include the CSS Manassas, the USS Vincennes, and the USS Richmond. Port Eads is located at the...
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  • Dispatch. Richmond, Virginia. June 25, 1861. p. 3. Retrieved 18 October 2016. "CSS Plymouth". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department,...
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    J. Carlton 24 Apr: CSS General Lovell, CSS Governor Moore, CSS Manassas, CSS Stonewall Jackson, Sweepstakes, USS Varuna 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens...
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  • Thumbnail for CSS George Page
    CSS George Page, a 410-ton sidewheel steamship, was originally built as a transport at Washington, D.C. in 1853. She was attached to the Quartermaster's...
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