Mark,
Why not give us a proposed order of battle.
Dave
Here we are Dave:
THE WEST GULF BLOCKADING SQUADRON: Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
JANUARY 1862
Paddle Frigate
Mississippi
1 – 9” sb, 10 – 8” sb, 1 -12pdr, 11 knots
Screw Sloops
Brooklyn
24 – 9” sb, 1 – 12pdr sb, 11.5 knots
Hartford : Flagship
16 -9” sb, 13.5 knots
Pensacola
22 – 9” sb, 1 – 42pdr mlr, 9.5 knots
Richmond
14 – 9” sb, 9.5 knots
Iroquois
2 – 11” sb, 4 – 32pdr sb, 11.5 knots
Oneida
2 – 11” sb, 4 – 32pdr sb, 11.5 knots
Screw Gunboats
Cayuga
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Itasca
1 – 10” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Katahdin
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Kennebec
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Kineo
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Owasco
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Pinola
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Sciota
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Winona
1 – 11” sb, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Wissahicon
1 – 150pdr mlr, 2 -24 pdr sb, 1 – 20pdr mlr, 10 knots
Paddle Gunboats
Miami
1 – 9” sb, 1 – 80pdr mlr, 4 -24pdr sb, 8 knots
De Soto
8 – 32pdr sb, 1 -30pdr mlr, 11 knots
Aquired Screw Ships
Huntsville – refitting
1 -64pdr mlr, 2 – 32pdr, 11 knots
South Carolina
4 -8” sb, 1 – 32pdr sb, 10.5 knots
Small Sidewheel Gunboats
Clifton
2 – 9” sb, 4 -32pdr mlr, 10 knots
John P Jackson
4 – 32pdr sb, 1 – 9” sb, 1 -6” mlr, 8 knots
Westfield
1 – 100pdr mlr, 1- 9”sb, 4 -8” sb, 10 knots
Survey Ships
Sachem
1 -20pdr mlr, 4 -32pdr sb, 10 knots
Uncas
1 -20pdr mlr, 2-32pdr sb, 10 knots
Sailing Sloops
Vincennes: Ship Island Guard-ship
4 -8” sb, 12 – 32pdr sb
Portsmouth
16 – 8” sb, 1- 12pdr sb
COMMODORE DUNLOP’S SQUADRON – MEXICO AND THE GULF.
Ships of the Line
Donegal : Flagship,
52 – 8”sb, 48 – 32pdr sb, 1 -68pdr sb chase guns, 12 knots
Sans Pareil,
40 – 8” sb, 40 – 32pdr sb, 1 -68pdr chase guns, 9.3 knots
Caeser,
46 – 8” sb, 42 – 32pdr sb, 2 -68pdr sb, 10.27 knots
Screw Frigates
Mersey,
4 -110pdr blr,16 – 10” sb, 4 -70pdr blr, 12 -68pdr sb guns, 13 knots
Phaeton,
30 -8”sb, 20 – 32pdr sb, guns, 10.5 knots
Ariadne,
24 -10” sb, 2 – 68pdr sb pivot guns, 13 knots
Screw Corvettes
Challenger,
20 – 8” sb, 1 -110pdr blr guns, guns, 10.7 knots
Tartar,
20 – 8” sb guns, 9.4 knots
Jason,
20 – 8” sb, 1 -110pdr blr guns, 12.25 knots
Greyhound,
16 – 8” sb 1 -110pdr blr guns, 10 knots
Screw Sloops
Desperate,
4 – 32pdr sb, 4- 20pdr blr guns, 9.4 knots
Paddle Steam Sloops
Barracouta,
4 – 32pdr sb, 1 – 110pdr blr pivot, 1 – 10”sb pivot guns, 10.5 knots
Screw gunboat
Plover, 1- 110pdr blr, 2 -24pdr how, 2-20pdr blr guns, 11 knots