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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --
USS Cincinnati (1862-1866)
USS Cincinnati, a 512-ton Cairo class ironclad
river gunboat, was built at Mound City, Illinois, for the U.S.
Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla. Commissioned in January 1862,
early in the following month she took part in the capture of Fort
Henry, Tennessee. During March and April 1862, Cincinnati
participated in the successful seige of the fortress at Island
Number Ten. On 10 May, in an action near Fort Pillow, she was
rammed by ships of the Confederate River Defense Fleet and sank
in shallow water.
Raised and repaired, Cincinnati was transferred to the
Navy in October 1862 and engaged in operations on the Yazoo River
during the latter part of that year. In January 1863, she took
part in the White River campaign, including the capture of Fort
Hindman, Arkansas. Further activities on the Yazoo were followed
by combat at Vickburg, where she was heavily hit by enemy shore
batteries and sunk on 27 May 1863. Cincinnati was again
raised, repaired and returned to service, spending most of the
rest of the Civil War patrolling on the Mississippi and nearby
rivers. In February 1865, she was sent to operate in the Mississippi
Sound and Mobile Bay areas. USS Cincinnati was decommissioned
in August 1865. Sold in March 1866, she sank later in that year.
This page features views of USS Cincinnati and provides
links to pictures of her actions.
For additional images, related to USS Cincinnati's
Civil War actions, see:
USS Cincinnati -- Actions and
Activities.
Click on the small photograph to prompt
a larger view of the same image.
Photo #: NH 63211
USS Cincinnati (1862-1865)
Photographed on the Western Rivers in 1862-63.
Note laundry drying on lines rigged from her mainmast, and awnings
spread over her upper deck.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 565 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 58761
USS Cincinnati (1862-1865)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 20 June
1863, soon after she was sunk off Vicksburg, Mississippi, by
Confederate gunfire.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 118KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 56663
"City" Class ironclad gunboats
Off Cairo, Illinois, in 1863, with barges moored in the foreground.
These ships are (from left to right):
USS Baron de Kalb (1862-1863);
USS Cincinnati (1862-1865) and
USS Mound City (1862-1865).
Boats are tied astern of Baron de Kalb and Cincinnati.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 475 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 56663-A
"City" Class ironclad gunboats
Off Cairo, Illinois, in 1863, with barges moored in the foreground.
These ships are (from left to right):
USS Baron de Kalb (1862-1863);
USS Cincinnati (1862-1865) and
USS Mound City (1862-1865).
Boats are tied astern of Baron de Kalb and Cincinnati.
Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 475 pixels
Note: This image shows somewhat more on the right
side and somewhat less on the left side than Photo # NH 56663.
Ship images are also not quite as sharp, though trees in the
distance are much more distinct. |
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Photo #: NH 998
USS Cincinnati (1862-1865)
Sketch of the ship during the later part of the Civil War, with
a long deckhouse fitted above her casemate.
Courtesy of the Philibrick Collection, Kittery, Maine.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
Online Image: 162KB; 740 x 565 pixels |
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For additional images, related to USS Cincinnati's
Civil War actions, see:
USS Cincinnati -- Actions and
Activities.
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4 March 2000