Photo #: 165-C-702
"City" Class armored gunboats
Under construction by James Eads, at St. Louis, Missouri, prior
to October 1861.
This view looks along the main deck on one gunboat, with its
boilers in the foreground and casemate timbers at the sides.
Another vessel is beyond, with some spar deck beams atop the
casemate side timbers and upright framing in place for her wheel
box.
The four ships of this class built at St. Louis were Carondelet,
Louisville, Pittsburg and Saint Louis.
Note flagpole in the left background.
Photograph from the Collections of the U.S. National Archives.
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