Billy1977
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Hello everybody, I've been reading up a little on the Union's "City"-class gunboats (Cairo, Carondelet, Pittsburgh, Mound City etc.) on the Mississippi River and have found conflicting information regarding their top speed. Some sources say 4 knots, some say 6 knots and some say 8 knots. In Official Records, Navies in their statistical data of U.S. and C.S. ships it says for Carondelet that she could go "upstream, 4 knots"
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=ofre2001;node=ofre2001:2;view=image;seq=58;size=100;page=root
so I'm thinking maybe the sources that say their top speed was 4 knots are referring to them being able to go upstream no faster than 4 knots. What would have been their top speed going downstream then? Maybe 6 knots? What would be considered the definitive source for this kind of Civil War naval data?
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar;cc=moawar;idno=ofre2001;node=ofre2001:2;view=image;seq=58;size=100;page=root
so I'm thinking maybe the sources that say their top speed was 4 knots are referring to them being able to go upstream no faster than 4 knots. What would have been their top speed going downstream then? Maybe 6 knots? What would be considered the definitive source for this kind of Civil War naval data?
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