Class overview | |
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Name: | Arkansas class |
Builders: | John T. Shirley & Co., Memphis, Tennessee |
Operators: | Confederate States Navy |
Built: | 1861–62 |
In service: | 1862 |
Planned: | 2 |
Completed: | 1 |
Lost: | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Casemate ironclad |
Length: | 165 ft (50 m) |
Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
Draft: | 11 ft 6 in (3.51 m) |
Installed power: | 2 propellers |
Propulsion: | 2 Steam engines |
Speed: | 7 knots (13 km/h; 8.1 mph) |
Complement: | 200 officers and enlisted men |
Armament: | designed for 6-8 guns |
The Arkansas-class ironclads were a pair of casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.