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CSS Texas, a 217-foot long ironclad ram, was launched at Richmond, Virginia, in January 1865. She was still fitting out when Federal forces captured the Confederate capital city in April 1865. The incomplete Texas was captured and taken to the Norfolk Navy Yard where she was sold in October 1867.

 

 

 
Career
Launched: Never finished
Commissioned: No
Decommissioned:  
Fate: Captured
General Characteristics
Displacement: ?
Length: 217 ft
Beam: 48 ft
Draught: 13 ft
Propulsion: Steam engine
Complement: 50 officers and men
Armament: four pivots, two broadside guns
 

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