Destroyed to prevent capture at Liverpool Landing, Yazoo River, May 1863
General characteristics
Tons burthen
447 tons
Length
191 ft (58 m)
Beam
28 ft (8.5 m)
Draft
9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion
Side paddle wheels, one vertical condensing beam engine; cylinders, 44” diameter, 11’ stroke[1]
Speed
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement
60 officers and men
Armament
1 8”-smoothbore, 1 32-pounder rifle[2]
CSS Ivy was a sidewheel steamer and privateer purchased by Commodore Lawrence Rousseau for service with the Confederate States Navy, and chosen by Commodore George Hollins for his Mosquito Fleet. The Mosquito Fleet was a group of riverboats converted to gunboats, and used to defend the Mississippi River in the area of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
CSS Ivy and USS Niagara.
Equipped with a powerful rifled 32-pounder, Ivy fought with the Mosquito Fleet at the Confederate victory of the Battle of the Head of Passes and their defeat at the Battle of Island Number 10. Subsequently, trapped in the Yazoo River, Ivy was destroyed to prevent her capture by the Union in May 1863.
^ORN II, v. 1, p. 256.
^Silverstone, Paul H. (1989). Warships of the Civil War Navies. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. p. 229. ISBN 0-87021-783-6.
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