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{| border="1" align="right" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="margin-left:5px"
|align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:H56663a.jpg|300px]]
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|"City" class ironclad gunboat
|-
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:34 star jack.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]
|-
|-
| Class:
| "City"
|-
| Ordered:
| 1861
|-
| Completed and commissioned:
| ''Carondelet'', ''St. Louis'', ''Cairo'', ''Pittsburgh'', ''Mound City'', ''Cincinnati'', ''Louisville''
|-
! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics
|-
| Displacement:
| 512 tons
|-
| Length:
| 175 feet
|-
| Beam:
| 51 feet 2 inches
|-
| Draft:
| 6 ft
|-
| Speed:
| 8 knots
|-
| Crew compliment:
| 251 officers and men
|-
| Armament:
| Four 42-pound rifles; three 8" smoothbore; six 32-pound guns
|}
The so-called '''"City"-class gunboat''' was several ironclad warships contructed between August 1861 and January 1862 by private contractor James B. Eads for use on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The first armored warships to see action during the [[American Civil War]], they would play an integeral role in the Western Theater of operations.
The so-called '''"City"-class gunboat''' was several ironclad warships contructed between August 1861 and January 1862 by private contractor James B. Eads for use on the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The first armored warships to see action during the [[American Civil War]], they would play an integeral role in the Western Theater of operations.