CSS Gaines
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| Career | Image:Confederate Navy Jack.svg |
|---|---|
| Laid down: | 1861 |
| Launched: | 1862
<tr valign=top><td>Commissioned:</td><td>1862</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Decommissioned:</td><td>August 5, 1864</td></tr> |
| Status: | Destroyed to prevent capture |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 863 tons |
| Length: | 202 feet |
| Beam: | 38 feet
<tr valign=top><td>Draft:</td><td>6 feet</td></tr><tr valign=top><td>Propulsion:</td><td>Steam engine</td></tr> |
| Speed: | 10 knots |
| Complement: | 130 officers and men
<tr valign=top><td>Armament:</td><td>1 8" rifled cannon, 5 32-pounder cannons</td></tr> |
CSS Gaines was hastily constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama during 1861-62, from unseasoned wood which was partially covered with 2-inch iron plating. Gaines resembled CSS Morgan except that she had high pressure boilers. Operating in the waters of Mobile Bay, under the command of Lieutenant John W. Bennett, CSN, she fought gallantly during the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864 until finally run aground near Fort Morgan and destroyed by her own officers to avoid surrender to the Union forces.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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