Name: CSS Mobile
Class: Conversion from Merchant vessel Iron protected gunboat
Screw(s): one. Speed: 8 knots estimated
Dimensions: 152ft OA x 28ft EX x 7.5ft D. 456 tons.
Guns: 3 - 32pdr SB, 1 - 8ins MLR, 1 - 32pdr MLR.
Armour: probably 1 to 2 inches over 12 “timber amidships. Built: Philadelphia 1860
History: She was a three masted barque, fitted with an internal timber casemate and light armour to protect her engines at Basher, La.
Original plan by the Author from an eyewitness description and hull lines of a similar vessel.
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