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* ''Entered Japanese Service: 3 February 1869''
* ''Entered Japanese Service: 3 February 1869''
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| <font size=4><font color="#000000"> Statistics
| colspan="2" | <font color="#000000"> Statistics<ref>Unless otherwise noted the statistics are from Steensen, Robert Steen. ''Vore Panserskibe.'' (Our Armoured Vessels). 1968.</ref>
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|<font color="#000000">Displacement
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Displacement:
|<font color="#000000">1,300 tons
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">1,400 tons<ref>The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies, Series II Volume 1, page 267 claims the tonnage to be 900.</ref><br>1,535 tons - deep load
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|<font color="#000000">Length
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Length:
|<font color="#000000">193 feet
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">187 feet<ref>ORUCN claims 171' 10"</ref>
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|<font color="#000000">Beam
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Beam:
|<font color="#000000">31 feet
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">32 feet 8 inches
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|<font color="#000000">Draught
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Draught:
|<font color="#000000">14 feet
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">14 feet 4 inches<ref>From ORUCN</ref>
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|<font color="#000000">Propulsion
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Propulsion:
|<font color="#000000">Two 350 horsepower double reciprocating engines
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Two tubular boilers<ref>ORUCN claims four engines</ref><br>Two shaft return connecting rod<br>1,200 indicated horsepower
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|<font color="#000000">Fuel
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Fuel:
|<font color="#000000">200 tons
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Coal - 200 tons
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|<font color="#000000">Speed
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Speed:
|<font color="#000000">10.5 knots
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">10.8 knots - both engines<ref>ORUCN claims "about 13 knots"</ref><br>5.8 knots - single engine
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|<font color="#000000">Complement
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Complement:
|<font color="#000000">135
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">135
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|<font color="#000000">Armament
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Armament:
|<font color="#000000">1 x 300-pounder Armstrong
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">1 x 300-pounder [[Armstrong gun]]s<br>2 x 70-pounder Armstrong<ref>ORUCN claims, as of 1865, two 150-pounder Armstrong instead of two 70-pounders</ref>
2 x 70-pounder Armstrong
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|<font color="#000000">Armor
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Armor:
|<font color="#000000">Turret – 4 3/8 inches of iron
|<font size=1><font color="#000000">Fore "turret" – 4 ½ inches of iron<br>Hull – 3 ½ - 4 inches of iron<br>Aft "turret" - 4 inches of iron
Hull – 4 inches of iron
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==Construction and life in France==
==Construction and life in France==
* Name while in service: ''Sphinx''
* Name while in service: ''Sphinx''
* Name while in service: CSS ''Stonewall'' (named for slain Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson)
* Name while in service: CSS ''Stonewall'' (named for slain Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson)
* Engagement: Pursued by United States warships ''Sacramento'', ''Niagara'', and ''Kearsarge''.
* Engagement: Pursued by United States warships ''Sacramento'', ''Niagara'', and ''Kearsarge''.
[[Image:Confederate_States_Naval_Ensign_post_May_26_1863.png||thumb|right|Naval ensign of the Confederate States Navy.]]
[[Image:Confederate_States_Naval_Ensign_post_May_26_1863.png||thumb|right|Naval ensign of the Confederate States Navy after 26 May 1863.]]
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[[Image:Confederate States Naval Jack.png||thumb|left|Naval jack of the Confederate States Navy from 1863 through 1865.]]
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| colspan="2" |<font color="#000000">Crew<ref>Evans, Clement Anselm. ''Confederate Military History.'' Volume 12.</ref>
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|<font size=1>Captain
|<font size=1>Thomas Jefferson Page
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|<font size=1>Lieutenant
|<font size=1>Robert Randolph Carter
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|<font size=1>Lieutenant
|<font size=1>George S. Shyrock
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|<font size=1>Lieutenant
|<font size=1>George A. Borchert
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|<font size=1>Lieutenant
|<font size=1>E. G. Read
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|<font size=1>Lieutenant
|<font size=1>Samuel Barron, Jr.
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|<font size=1>Surgeon
|<font size=1>Bennett Wood Green
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|<font size=1>Assistant Surgeon
|<font size=1>James W. Herty
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|<font size=1>Paymaster
|<font size=1>Richard W. Curtis
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|<font size=1>Engineer
|<font size=1>William Param Brooks
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|<font size=1>Engineer
|<font size=1>William Hutcheson Jackson
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|<font size=1>Engineer
|<font size=1>J. C. Klosh
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|<font size=1>Master
|<font size=1>William W. Wilkinson
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|<font size=1>Boatswain
|<font size=1>John M. Dukehart
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|<font size=1>Gunner
|<font size=1>J. B. King
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|<font size=1>Master’s Mate
|<font size=1>W. H. Savage
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|<font size=1>Paymaster’s Clerk
|<font size=1>William Boynton
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==References==
==References==
* Evans, Clement Anselm. Confederate military history; a library of Confederate States history. Volume 12. Atlanta, GA: Confederate Publishing Company, 1899.
* Greene, Jack and Alessandro Massignani. ''Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891.'' Pennsylvania: Combined Publishing, 1998.
* Greene, Jack and Alessandro Massignani. ''Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891.'' Pennsylvania: Combined Publishing, 1998.
* Naval War Records Office. ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies''. Series I Volumes 3 (1896), 5 (1897), 12 (1901), 16 (1903), 17 (1903), 22 (1908), 27 (1917). Series II Volumes 1 (1921), 2 (1921), 3 (1922). Washington, D.C.: Government Print. Office, 1894-1922.
* Naval War Records Office. ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies''. Series I Volumes 3 (1896), 5 (1897), 12 (1901), 16 (1903), 17 (1903), 22 (1908), 27 (1917). Series II Volumes 1 (1921), 2 (1921), 3 (1922). Washington, D.C.: Government Print. Office, 1894-1922.
* Steensen, Robert Steen. ''Vore Panserskibe'' (Our Armoured Vessels). Copenhagen, Denmark: Marinehistorisk Selskab, 1968. 178-195.
* “The Confederate Steam Ram ‘Stonewall’ leaving Lisbon Harbor.” ''Harper’s Weekly'', 13 May 1865, p. 301.
* “The Confederate Steam Ram ‘Stonewall’ leaving Lisbon Harbor.” ''Harper’s Weekly'', 13 May 1865, p. 301.
