USS Cairo/ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats.
Cairo is named for Cairo, Illinois. In June 1862, she captured the Confederate garrison of Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, enabling Union forces to occupy Memphis. As part of the Yazoo Pass Expedition, she was sunk on 12 December 1862, while clearing mines for the attack on Haines Bluff. Cairo was the first ship ever to be sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand.
The remains of Cairo can be viewed at Vicksburg National Military Park with a museum of its weapons and naval stores.
USSCairo /ˈkeɪroʊ/ is the lead ship of the City-class casemate ironclads built at the beginning of the American Civil War to serve as river gunboats...
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due to the Battle of Hampton Roads, in which the Union turreted ironclad USS Monitor and the Confederate casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (sometimes called...
scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the Union's USS Monitor in March 1862...
of the West was one of the ships that accompanied the USSCairo up the Yazoo River. The Cairo was struck by a 'torpedo' or naval mine and began to sink...
The Battle of Vicksburg involved monitors and ironclad riverboats. The USSCairo is a survivor of the Vicksburg battle. Trade on the river was suspended...
trail, two antebellum homes, 144 emplaced cannons, the restored gunboat USSCairo (sunk on December 12, 1862, on the Yazoo River), and the Grant's Canal...
Warrior, first ironclad battleship of the Royal Navy Casemate ironclad USSCairo on a contemporary photograph. HMS Prince Albert, a pioneering turret ship...
of the West was one of the ships that accompanied the USSCairo up the Yazoo River. The Cairo was struck by a 'torpedo' or naval mine and began to sink...
trail, two antebellum homes, 144 emplaced cannons, the restored gunboat USSCairo (sunk on December 12, 1862, on the Yazoo River), and the Grant's Canal...
"Sundew 1944". US Coast Guard Cutter History. Retrieved 3 October 2016. "USSCairo Gunboat & Museum". National Park Service. Retrieved 18 September 2016...
ironclad USSCairo is currently on display in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Northrop Grumman in Newport News constructed a full-scale replica of USS Monitor...
aircraft in December 1937, the newer ships served in China until late 1941. USSCairo The Sand Pebbles - A film based on the book of the same name Paraguayan...
river in 1862 near Vicksburg to sink the Union ironclad USSCairo. The last section of the Cairo was raised on December 12, 1964. It has been restored and...
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned...
"Brownwater Navy". (1776) - USS Philadelphia resides at the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. (1861) - USSCairo is on display at the Vicksburg...
set time, although electrical detonators were also occasionally used. USSCairo was the first warship to be sunk in 1862 by an electrically-detonated...
25 Nov: USS Ellis November (unknown date): USS Mingo 12 Dec: USSCairo 31 Dec: USS Monitor Unknown date: USS Noble Other incidents 11 Jan: HMS St Vincent...
allowing full broad-sides, as well as bow and stern shots. An example, USSCairo, is on display at the Vicksburg National Military Park. Paddle-wheel propulsion...
which had been used in the Vicksburg campaign, as well as the wreck of USSCairo. He also found two lost forts in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, and was party...
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