Home > CSS Stonewall
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| Career
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| Builder:
| L'Arman , Bordeaux, France
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| Laid down:
| 1863
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| Launched:
| 21 June 1864
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| Commissioned:
| 25 October 1864
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| Acquired by Japan:
| 3 February 1869
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| Decommissioned:
| 28 January 1888
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| Fate:
| Scrapped
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 1,358 t
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| Length:
| 59 m LOA
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| Beam:
| 9.6 m
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| Draught:
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| Propulsion:
| 12,00 hp double reciprocating engine
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| Fuel:
| Coal, 95 tons
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| Speed:
| 9 knots (15 km/h)
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| Complement:
| 135
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| Armament:
| 1 x 300 pounds gun
2 x 70 pounds guns
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| Armour:
| 124-89 mm (waterline)
124 mm (gun turrets)
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The CSS Stonewall was built in Bordeaux, France, for the Confederate Navy. The French government prohibited the ship from being sold to the Confederacy, and instead arranged for her to be sold to Denmark. The deal never happened, and the manufacturer of the Stonewall eventually secretely resold her to the Confederates.
The arrival of the "formidable" Stonewall in America was dreaded by the United States, and several ships tried to intercept her, among them the USS Kearsarge and the USS Sacramento.
After an eventful crossing of the Atlantic, she eventually arrived in the United States near the end of the American Civil War, too late to have a significant effect, as by the time of her October 1864 commissioning the Confederacy was in disarray and near defeat, its navy disintegrating, along with most other Confederate institutions. After being seized by Union forces near the end of the war, the Stonewall was sold after two years to the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate, where she became the Kotetsu and served for two decades in the Imperial Japanese NavyThe Imperial Japanese Navy IJN ( or ) was the navy of Japan before 1945. The opening of Japan Japan built her first ocean-going Western-style warships in the beginning of the 17th century, during her first period of contacts with the West. In 1614, the Da.
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