US Ram Queen of the West, a sidewheel steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1854, was purchased by the United States Department of War in 1862 and fitted out as a ram for Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr.'s Ram Fleet which operated on the Mississippi River in the U.S. Civil War in conjunction with the Western Flotilla.
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| - USS Queen of the West (1854)
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rdfs:comment
| - US Ram Queen of the West, a sidewheel steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1854, was purchased by the United States Department of War in 1862 and fitted out as a ram for Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr.'s Ram Fleet which operated on the Mississippi River in the U.S. Civil War in conjunction with the Western Flotilla.
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locality
| - Fort Derussy
- Grand Lake
- Palmyra creek
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Date
| - 1862-06-06(xsd:date)
- 1863-02-02(xsd:date)
- 1863-02-14(xsd:date)
- 1863-02-25(xsd:date)
- 1863-04-11(xsd:date)
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Note
| - Under the Confederate flag, the Queen of the West together with CSS Webb forces the surrender of USS Indianola off Palmyra Island.
- The Queen's destruction at Grand Lake, after attack by USS Estrella , Arizona , and Calhoun .
- Under heavy fire by the shore batteries of Fort DeRussy, the Queen was captured by Confederates after allegedly being run aground purposely by a replacement pilot who was later accused of being a rebel sympathizer.
- Decisive victory over Confederate River Defense Fleet in the Battle of Memphis. The Queen is pictured center background.
- Vicksburg: After ramming the City of Vicksburg, the Queen's forward guns fired combustible balls saturated with turpentine into the ship, but her own cotton cladding caught fire in the conflagration and was forced to withdraw.
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State
| - Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Tennessee
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Ship caption
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City
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View
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- -41(xsd:integer)
- 67(xsd:integer)
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Ship image
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| - Queen of the West- Attacks City of Vicksburg.
- Queen of the West- Captured by Confederates
- Queen of the West- Destroyed by Union ships
- Queen of the West- Fights in Battle of Memphis
- Queen of the West-attacks and captures USS Indianola
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lat
| - 29(xsd:double)
- 31(xsd:double)
- 32(xsd:double)
- 32(xsd:double)
- 35(xsd:double)
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Lon
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- -91(xsd:double)
- -91(xsd:double)
- -90(xsd:double)
- -90(xsd:double)
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abstract
| - US Ram Queen of the West, a sidewheel steamer built at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1854, was purchased by the United States Department of War in 1862 and fitted out as a ram for Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr.'s Ram Fleet which operated on the Mississippi River in the U.S. Civil War in conjunction with the Western Flotilla.
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