Era No. 5
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Career (CSA) | Confederate Navy Jack |
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Launched: | 1860 |
Chartered: | 1863 |
Career (USA) | 100x35px |
Captured: | 14 February 1863 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 115 long tons (117 t) |
Propulsion: | Stern wheel steamer |
Era No. 5 — a shallow-draft steamer built in 1860 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — was chartered by the Confederates early in 1863 to transport corn from the Red River to Camden, Arkansas.
As the steamer — laden with 4,500 bushels of corn — proceeded to her destination on 14 February 1863, she rounded a sharp bend 15 mi (24 km) above the mouth of the Black River, came upon and was captured by USS Indianola. Era No. 5 was then assigned to Colonel Charles R. Ellet's river fleet, fitted out with protective cotton baling and used by the Union as a dispatch boat and transport in the Mississippi River.
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This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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