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Attack of the gun boats upon the city, & Castle of San Juan de Ulloa. Bombardment of Vera Cruz, March 1847 / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.
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Attack of the gun boats upon the city, & Castle of San Juan de Ulloa. Bombardment of Vera Cruz, March 1847 / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.
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Print shows the bombardment of Vera Cruz by American warships under the command of Josiah Tattnall Esq. U.S.N.; ships and their commanding officers are identified as "Falcon, Lt. Glasson, Reefen, Lt. Sterett, Vixen, Comd. Sands, Petrel, Lt, Shaw, Bonita, Lt. Benham, Spitfire, Comd. Tattnall, Tampico, Lt. Griffin".
160 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: Commanded by Josiah Tatnall [sic] Esq. U.S.N.
From a sketch taken on board the Steamer Spitfire, during the action, by J.M. Ladd U.S.N.
No. 467.
Inscribed in ink at bottom: 160. Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. of New York. June 7, 1847.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Gale, 321
In the early years of the war many civilian ships were confiscated for military use, while both sides built new ships. The most popular ships were tinclads—mobile, small ships that actually contained no tin. These ships were former merchant ships, generally about 150 feet in length, with about two to six feet of draft, and about 200 tons. Shipbuilders would remove the deck and add an armored pilothouse as well as sheets of iron around the forward part of the casemate and the engines. Most of the tinclads had six guns: two or three twelve-pounder or twenty-four-pounder howitzers on each broadside, with two heavier guns, often thirty-two-pounder smoothbores or thirty-pounder rifles, in the bow. These ships proved faster than ironclads and, with such a shallow draft, worked well on the tributaries of the Mississippi.