Oct. 12 • The USS St. Louis, a Civil War gunboat, is launched
Future bridge-builder won a contract to construct seven burly gunboats from a novel design.
Source: stltoday.com
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John Rodgers: Midwife to the Ironclad
Ultimately, no other officer did as much for the Navy to push it into this new and untired technology and to make it the success that led to victory at sea in the Civil War.
Source: usni.org