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from scratch, but not only were there no shipyards, there were also no skilled shipwrights to work in them. Reasoning that too much time would be lost training men in traditional techniques, Tift hit on the idea of constructing ships on housebuilding principles. He thought of making a ship with flat sides, with square corners except where the pointed ends join with the rest of the hull. He made a model to illustrate his idea and used it to further his proposal. (See accompanying figure.)
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as a young man and there became locally prominent. (The town of Tifton, in Tift County, is named for him.) At the outbreak of the Civil War, he realized some of the difficulties faced by the South in its need to confront the
Northern navy. Secretary Mallory had called for building a navy essentially
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fabrication of the three shafts that were to connect the engines to the screws. The two outboard shafts could be handled by New
Orleans shops, but the long central shaft could not be manufactured anyplace in the Confederacy. A satisfactory shaft was found in a wrecked ship in October, but only the
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had promptly urged the building of armored warships, to counter by the inherent quality of ships in his Navy the superior numbers the
Federal Navy would be able to use. At his prodding, the Confederacy embarked on a construction program that included several armored vessels intended for use on the
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The engines and shafts added to the problems. The increased size of boilers, already alluded to, caused some delay. The contract that was let for the engines called for the job to be done by the end of
January, but they were not installed until April. The greatest mechanical problem, however, was
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Confederate Secretary of the Navy. No evidence exists that Asa Tift and Mallory were ever formally associated in any of their businesses, but their friendship opened doors. The Tifts showed the model to Mallory, who in turn showed it to a naval review board. When the board pronounced the
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Labor troubles of the traditional sort arose in
November, shortly after work commenced. The workers in all the shipyards struck, demanding that their wages be increased from $ 3 to $ 4 per day. The other owners wanted to wait out the strikers, but after a week the Tifts gave in. The others were
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Iron for the armor was in short supply throughout the
Confederacy and was not to be found near New Orleans. Eventually the Tifts were able to find a foundry in Atlanta that would produce plate iron of sufficient thickness, but delivery by way of the already overtaxed railroad system was often
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Orleans was suitable, so they established their own at Jefferson City, on the river just north of the city line. As the builders of
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was torched and New Orleans was surrendered, Nelson Tift stated that he believed his ship would have been completed in another two or three weeks. (This estimate was contradicted by Captain Sinclair, who thought she was more like ten weeks away from completion.)
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idea to be feasible, Mallory authorized the brothers to go to New Orleans and there put their idea into concrete form. They were to supervise the construction of an as yet unnamed armored ship carrying 18 guns, driven by three screws.
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is significant to the Civil War therefore not so much as a warship as in the way her reputation influenced events, and as an example of the difficulties the South had in the contest with the industrial North.
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had proclaimed the blockade of Southern ports but before the North had taken any major steps to subjugate the South, called for five ironclads to be built in the interior:
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prematurely, against the advice of Sinclair and the engineers working on the ship. The Tifts refused, arguing that to do so would delay completion by several weeks.
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length to 252 feet (77 meters). The extra length allowed positions for two more guns, for a total of twenty. For comparison,
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703:ORN II, v. 1, pp. 535–536, 637–638.
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894:Confederate Navy Chief: Stephen R. Mallory.
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853:. New York: Hippocrene Books.
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259:Origin of the river ironclads
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21:Mississippi (disambiguation)
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1312:New England
1290:Ocean Chief
1163:Virginia II
1128:Tennessee I
566:Mississippi
546:Mississippi
530:Mississippi
499:Mississippi
470:Mississippi
395:Mississippi
357:Asa F. Tift
341:Nelson Tift
329:Mississippi
318:Mississippi
310:Mississippi
252:Mississippi
230:Union Fleet
224:during the
222:New Orleans
205:Mississippi
164:380 crewmen
58:Mississippi
2199:Ship fires
2194:1862 ships
2178:Categories
2127:Bainbridge
2039:February:
2011:St Vincent
1885:Adirondack
1796:Livingston
1672:Mound City
1665:Germantown
1658:Cincinnati
1647:Carondelet
1597:Washington
1583:CSRC
1431:Cumberland
1370:Appomattox
1231:Shipwrecks
1170:Wilmington
1149:Tuscaloosa
1023:Huntsville
988:Charleston
786:References
402:Louisiana.
161:Complement
141:Propulsion
2125:USS
2094:USS
2063:USS
2054:Minnesota
2052:USS
2041:USS
2030:HMS
2009:HMS
1987:USS
1976:USS
1965:USS
1954:USS
1912:USS
1901:USS
1894:USS
1883:USS
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1701:Jamestown
1670:USS
1656:USS
1645:CSS
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1615:Louisiana
1565:USS
1552:CSS
1479:Red Rover
1453:Whitehall
1451:USS
1429:USS
1422:USS
1411:USS
1400:USS
1375:CSS
1335:USS
1328:USS
1317:USS
1310:USS
1299:USS
1278:USS
1267:USS
1260:USS
1121:Stonewall
1065:Nashville
1030:Louisiana
953:Albemarle
587:pp. 44ff.
526:Louisiana
495:Louisiana
455:Louisiana
451:Louisiana
423:Louisiana
418:Merrimack
416:USS
409:CSS
390:Louisiana
388:CSS
305:Louisiana
295:Tennessee
247:Louisiana
245:CSS
112:1400 tons
80:Laid down
2123:22 Nov:
2113:15 Nov:
2103:17 Aug:
2082:23 Jun:
2072:13 May:
2028:22 Feb:
2007:11 Jan:
1974:31 Dec:
1963:12 Dec:
1941:25 Nov:
1931:15 Oct:
1910:10 Sep:
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1863:Arkansas
1849:24 Jul:
1838:21 Jul:
1821:15 Jul:
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1778:Maurepas
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1697:15 May:
1690:Virginia
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1547:Manassas
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1449:10 Mar:
1424:Congress
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1366:10 Feb:
1359:Sea Bird
1326:26 Jan:
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1276:20 Jan:
1156:Virginia
1114:Savannah
1107:Richmond
1058:Muscogee
1051:Missouri
1037:Manassas
1002:Columbia
967:Arkansas
596:Durkin,
506:Richmond
483:Farragut
425:had 16.
411:Virginia
381:pockets.
361:Key West
314:Arkansas
289:Arkansas
279:Eastport
169:Armament
88:Launched
64:Namesake
2092:7 Aug:
2085:Memphis
2075:Planter
2061:8 May:
2050:8 Mar:
2043:Vermont
2032:Defence
1978:Monitor
1921:2 Oct:
1914:Tigress
1859:6 Aug:
1719:6 Jun:
1633:Jackson
1604:Pamlico
1591:Pioneer
1585:Pickens
1497:8 Apr:
1490:Grampus
1486:7 Apr:
1475:4 Apr:
1468:Memphis
1463:Camilla
1438:9 Mar:
1420:8 Mar:
1391:Forrest
1355:8 Feb:
1344:7 Feb:
1269:Potomac
1258:9 Jan:
1248:4 Jan:
1238:2 Jan:
1100:Raleigh
1093:Phoenix
1016:Georgia
995:Chicora
974:Atlanta
939:of the
766:Still,
681:Still,
668:Still,
619:Still,
583:Still,
518:Mallory
443:Gosport
441:or the
349:Georgia
345:Florida
300:Memphis
282:on the
238:Captain
212:of the
72:Builder
35:History
2096:Oneida
2065:Galena
1874:Sumter
1679:Fulton
1640:Oregon
1567:Varuna
1511:Erebus
1348:Curlew
1262:Meteor
981:Baltic
960:Arctic
876:
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770:p. 53.
685:p. 44.
672:p. 43.
302:, and
117:Length
1989:Noble
1967:Cairo
1956:Mingo
1945:Ellis
1622:McRae
1384:Fanny
1337:Timor
1330:India
1142:Texas
1072:Neuse
572:Notes
561:forts
514:Davis
398:'
193:Armor
154:knots
149:Speed
133:Draft
2163:1863
2150:1861
1943:USS
1924:Iona
1861:CSS
1801:CSS
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1520:USS
1499:CSS
1488:CSS
1477:CSS
1466:(or
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1382:CSS
1368:CSS
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1301:Peri
874:ISBN
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497:and
414:(ex-
308:and
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277:CSS
203:CSS
125:Beam
96:Fate
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