Richmond (ironside)
| Richmond | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Basic information | |
| Operation person |  American allied powers Navy |
| Career | |
| Ordering | 1862 |
| The start of work | March, 1862 |
| The launching | May 6, 1862 |
| Placement on duty | July, 1862 |
| Military retirement | April 3, 1865 |
| The last | I destroy it in order to avoid 鹵獲 |
| Essential points | |
| Length | 172 ft 6 in (52.58m) |
| Width | 34 ft (10m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7m) |
| Promotion | Steam engine |
| Speed | 5-6 knots |
| Crew | 150 (officer, the rank and file total) |
| 兵装 | Grooved cannon x 4, howitzer x 2, decoration mine |
CSS Richmond (CSS Richmond) is a Richmond grade embolum ironside of the American allied powers Navy of the Civil War average (the southern navy).
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Warship career
John porter (John L. Porter) designed Richmond, and inhabitants of Virginia contributed money and scrap iron and were constructed in Gosport naval shipyard. Because Richmond was designed based on an image of ironside Virginia, called it "young people Virginia", and, for several months before 2, Virginia being started work of, "new Merrimack" was often called "young people Merrimack" by the record on the Federal army side "the Virginia second" "Merrimack No. 2" "Virginia No. 2" in the Confederate Army.
Building began in March, 1862, but the Federal army recaptured Gosport naval shipyard and a James lower part of a river style on the night of May 6. I was launched on the daytime of May 6 to escape and was towed into Richmond that was a southern capital from now on. Therefore, it was made equipment of a ship in Richmond, and James river fleet increased Richmond as the captain in Robert peg lamb lieutenant colonels in July, 1862. An iron plate of the 4 inches thickness defended a casemate part of Virginia in addition to a yellow pine and oak with the thickness of 22 inches in total, but, according to John Burroughs (John H. Burroughs) who was the supervision of the shipyard, was done armor on an iron plate to 3.5 feet of surface of the water bottoms.
The front of the James River was quiet, but, until the beginning from 1863 through 1864, a serious event happened in succession from May, 1864. The fleet consisting of three construction ironsides which French Forest () French Forrest) colonel led performed some small battles.
During 1864, Richmond participated in the battle in the tea fin bluff (Chaffin's Bluff) as the captain in Captain William Parker (William Harwar Parker) on Harrison fortress (Fort Harrison), October 22 over October 1 from Dutch gap (Dutch Gap), September 29 on April 13. For from 23 to 24 on January in 1865, Richmond was exposed to intense arson with 2, Virginia that ran aground to an occlude thing of the Trento reach, but the cannonball of the Federal army glided with the armor of the casemate for the angle, and there was not the damage. However, in CSS ドルーリー (CSS Drewry), ammo exploded and suffered big damage because sinking, CSS スコーピオン (CSS Scorpion) which there was on this occasion beside Richmond were no armor. The fleet of the Confederate Army ironside withdrew under the protection of the ally battery of the tea fin bluff for several weeks. However, Richmond was destroyed prior to the withdrawal from the capital of the Confederate Army by the order of the Raphael Sem's (Raphael Semmes) major general of the fleet commander.
Captain
The commanders of the CSS Richmond were: [1]
- Robert B. Pegram lieutenant colonel (from October, 1862 to May, 1864)
- William Harwar Parker lieutenant colonel (May-June from May, 1864 to June)
- John S. Maury captain (from July, 1864 to October 26)
- William A. Webb lieutenant colonel (from October, 1864 to November)
- John McIntosh Kell lieutenant colonel (from December 30, 1864 to February, 1865)
- Hamilton Henderson Dalton captain (February, 1865)
- J.A. Peters cadet (during acting captain, February, 1865)
Footnote
- ^ Coski (1996), John M. Capital Navy: The Men, Ships and Operations of the James River Squadron, Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers. ISBN 1-882810-03-1.
Reference materials
- Silverstone, Paul H. (2006). Civil War Navies 1855–1883. The U.S. Navy Warship Series. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-97870-X.
- Still, William N., Jr. (1985). Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads (Reprint of the 1971 ed.). Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0-87249-454-3.
- This article includes a sentence to come from Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships which is a book of the United States of America Government.
Allied item
- Richmond (light cruiser) - The sixth warship of the Omaha grade light cruiser.
Coordinate: 37°25'24" N 77°24'8" W / 37.42333 degrees N 77.40222 degrees W
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