Built in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania in 1857, the steam ram Lioness was purchased by the War Department and converted to a ram for Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr.'s U.S. Ram Fleet. Commissioned in 1862, Lieutenant Warren D. Crandall in command, she joined the Union flotilla on the western rivers.
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