City Class Ironclad
2.5 in (64 mm) on casemate, 1.5 in (38 mm) on pilot house;
The Pook Turtles, or City class gunboats to use their semi-official name, were war vessels intended for service on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. They were also sometimes referred to as "Eads gunboats." The labels are applied to seven vessels of uniform design built from the keel up in Carondelet, Missouri shipyards owned by James Buchanan Eads. Eads was a wealthy St. Louis industrialist who risked his fortune in support of the Union.
The City Class gunboats were the United States' first ironclad warships.
The gunboats produced by Eads formed the core of the US Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla, which later was transferred to the US Navy and became the Mississippi River Squadron. Eads gunboats took part in almost every significant action on the upper Mississippi and its tributaries from their first offensive use at the Battle of Fort Henry until the end of the war.
Read more about City Class Ironclad: Early Connection Between Eads and The US Government, City Class Gunboats; Pook Turtles, Battles and Other Operations in Which City-class Gunboats Participated, Evaluation of The Gunboats, Today
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