BRION BOYLES' MODEL CSS SHILOH CONFEDERATE STATES NAVY on the SAUGATUCK
My 1:40th scale fictional vessel, the gunboat SHILOH on the Saugatuck river in CT.
Her "particulars":
CSS SHILOH: built in New Orleans, 1896 for service in the Confederate States Navy , Mississippi Squadron. Length: 150' Beam: 32', Draft 7' , 600 tons. 2 boilers (originally coal, converted to oil 1916) providing 225 PSI steam for triple-expansion engine, driving a single screw (4 blade)for a maximum speed of 26 knots. Main armament: 2x 5" guns, 2 x 6-pounders, 4 x .45 caliber "Brickers" machineguns. Crew :24 Combat action in Spanish-North American War, Cuban Insurrection, Great Key West Rumrunner Revolt of 1921 and WWI. Decommissioned New Years Day, 1930 as part of the conditions of the Re-unification Treaty of 1929 and on the dissolution of the Confederate States Navy and formal reunification of the Confederacy with the United States.
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