Former Sub Marine No.7 becomes a powerful ironclad.

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The former Sub Marine No. 7 was working as a snag boat at the start of the Civil War. She was a center wheel catamaran. Hard working but she was not very attractive. This two hulled snag boot was transformed into the USS Benton, one of the largest and most powerful river boat iron clads of the war.
 
Here is an image (from the Wikipedia City-Class Ironclads page).

Submarine_No._7.jpg
 
When you consider how powerful that she needed to be to be a snagboat, then no wonder how brutish she was as an ironclad. Plus, I believe that she was the only City Class Gunboat not to have been built from scratch.
 
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