Brown water question....

[Republican Blues]

Piddeling around on line looking at different ship modeling sites specific to the WBTS, and came across one advertising a Confederate Mortar Barge.... I had alwyas been under the assumption that the mortar barges were more common on the Western Rivers, and on the Federal side of the equation.... am I incorrect??

 

[AndyHall]

You are correct as a general rule, because it was usually the Union naval forces that were attacking Confederate land forces by water.

What do they say about it? Got a link?

 

[Republican Blues]

Yup.. ill send it aft to the quarterdeck as soon as i can steal the PC back from my dear lady

 

[Bob Owen]

 

[Republican Blues]

Thats the bugger... so far i have found nuttin' on Confederat usage.. me thinks its a misnomer or the if its CS it sells

 

[AndyHall]

I'll defer to Mark on Confederate usage, of similar craft, but it may be a marketing decision. I've heard many times that the market for CS [anything] is much bigger than for Federal.

 

[Red Harvest]

I can't recall any CS mortar barges at the moment. As has been noted, mortar barges are part of offensive riverine operations, not defensive. Shore based mortars made more sense, more stable platform, not vulnerable to attack by water where the US forces were much more of a threat.

But with the ACW there always seems to be some sort of exception...

 

[Lee]

I thought I read of such a Confederate barge used around Charleston. Mark of course should be along directly and surely he will know.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

That's a Union mortar raft, built at the direction of good old "Pathfinder" Fremont. Very odd that it's labeled "Confederate".

Here's one (after some use) next to the USS Tuscumbia...

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I suppose it's not impossible that one might have been captured, but if so, I'm not aware of it. I suspect it's labeled "Confederate" simply from the vaguely "Merrimack" shape (deliberately using the term "Merrimack" here).

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Mph. My Cisco router doesn't want me to visit the Flagshipmodels website; seems to think it's detected some sort of malware there.

 

[johan_steele]

Suspect it's pure moonshine.

 

[TinCan]

Cool site.....I'd like to have one of those.

 

[Republican Blues]

Yeah, from everything I have been looking to on my own and ya'lls input I have pretty vindicated myself that I was right, and this guy is hyping the CS part