ABSTRACT

Name Builder Launched Acquired Comm.

Colonel Lovell Cincinnati, Ohio 1845 1861 1861

ex-Hercules

Tonnage 521 tons, also reported as 371 tons

Dimensions 162ʹ × 30ʹ10ʺ × d11ʹ Machinery Side wheels

Armament 4-8ʺ guns Service record: Engagement off Ft. Pillow, 10 May 1862. Rammed by USS Queen of the West and Monarch and sank off Memphis, 6 Jun 1862.