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Old 08-26-2009, 09:01 PM
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CSS Tennessee

Here's my start on another one. I stumbled on to a good three way plan for her so I had to do it! It will be a while before it's ready but it's a start. It is the CSS Tennessee, one of the few ironclads that had an armored deck. Unfortunately they left the rudder chains exposed in trenches at deck level. These where hidden with boiler plate but the Union's Monitor's big guns still found them. Unable to maneuver, and ganged up on 4 to 1 or more, she surrendered at Mobile bay. The Yanks knew a good thing when they saw one, and quickly put the ironclad to work as a blockade, the USS Tennessee.
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