CSS Albemarle courtesy   

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The CSS Tuscaloosa Foundation 

Membership for the first year is $5 with the membership period running from April 12, 2005 to April 12, 2006. Anyone wishing to make a contribution may send their contributions to the address below or contact Larry Chesnutt in person. 

CSS Tuscaloosa Foundation

 Post Office Box 020152

Tuscaloosa, AL 35402

Support the raising, restoration, and movement to a permanent display of the CSS Tuscaloosa in our city !!

(IrcRam: l. 152'; b. 34; dph. 10'6"; dr. 8'; s. 3 k.; cpl. 120; a. 1 6.4" r., 3 32-pdr. [planned]; type Heavy Albemarle)

CSS Tuscaloosa, an ironclad floating battery, was launched at Selma, Ala., 7 February 1863. She was designed as a ram to mount four guns and to have the protection of 4-inch iron plating supplied by Schofield & Markham and Shelby Iron Co.
Engined before launching, Tuscaloosa proceeded under her own power to Mobile for completion. Under Commander C. H. McBlair, CSN, she served in the Mobile area until Mobile's capitulation on 12 April 1865 when the Confederates sank her in the Spanish River 12 miles north of the city.

Information retrieved from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Vessels - Department of the Navy

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