CSS Anglo-Norman

CSS Anglo-Norman was a side-wheel steam gunboat of the Confederate States of America. Built at Algiers, Louisiana in 1850 and thereafter employed as a towboat by the Southern Steamship Company in New Orleans, Anglo-Norman was seized by Confederate forces on January 16, 1862.[1] The steamer was one of fourteen ships acquired by Brigadier General Mansfield Lovell with the backing of the Confederate Secretary of War, for possible conversion to gunboats and rams in the Mississippi River Defense Fleet.

History
Confederate States
Name:	Anglo-Norman
Operator:	Confederate States Navy
Completed:	1850
Acquired:	January 16, 1862[1]
Fate:	Burned or captured, April 1862
General characteristics
Type:	Gunboat
Length:	175 ft 2 in (53.39 m)[2]
Beam:	29 ft 5 in (8.97 m)[2]
Draft:	9 ft (2.7 m)[2]
Propulsion:	Steam engine side-wheel
Complement:	35 to 80[2]
Armament:	1 × 32-pounder gun[2][3][note 1]

At the time of the action at Ports Jackson and St. Philip, April 1862, Anglo-Norman was not mentioned as one of the River Defense Fleet. The steamer is recorded as burning on April 27, but nevertheless appears as one of the 22 listed in the prize cases before arbitrators on 1 May 1862.[2]

Notes

1. Anglo-Norman possessed at least one 32-pounder gun and possibly another gun as well.

References

1. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. 2. 1. p. 667. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
2. Gaines, W. Craig. Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks. Louisiana State University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8071-3274-6.
3. "Anglo-Norman". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 2020-03-14.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.