CSS Manassas

CSS Manassas, formerly the steam <a href="/facts/Icebreaker/jMGLK96X">icebreaker</a> Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at <a href="/facts/Medford%2c_Massachusetts/G84sqSBr">Medford</a>, Massachusetts. A <a href="/facts/New_Orleans/IgCn61KH">New Orleans</a> commission merchant, <a href="/facts/Captain_(naval)/EeuMbyo5">Captain</a> John A. Stevenson, acquired her for use as a <a href="/facts/Privateer/PfeEkF2p">privateer</a> after she was captured by another privateer (later gunboat) <a href="/facts/CSS_Ivy/KYvH3hQu">CSS Ivy</a>. Her <a href="/facts/Fitting_out/vlYXgkPC">fitting out</a> as Manassas was completed at <a href="/facts/Algiers%2c_Louisiana/houdaz1w">Algiers</a>, Louisiana; her conversion to a <a href="/facts/Naval_ram/QfHAcfHo">ram</a> of a radically modern design made her the first <a href="/facts/Ironclad/woAQJfj3">ironclad</a> ship built for the <a href="/facts/Confederate_States_of_America/jMSDM4q3">Confederacy</a>.

CSS Manassas open-in-new

CSS Manassas