| The steam corvette Texas was intended for but did not join
the CSN. Secretary of the Navy S. R. Mallory, writing Comdr. James D. Bulloch,
CSN, in Paris, 22 February 1864, directs that
"*_*_* your four corvettes
*_*_* may be called
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia." Two,
camouflaged under the names of Osacca and Yeddo, were then
building at Bordeaux by the firm of L. Arman, while the other pair, masquerading
as San Francisco (presumably intended to be Texas) and
Shanghai, took shape in the yard of Jollet, Babier, and of Th. Dubigeon
& Sons at Nates; their 400-hp. engines were fabricated by Mazeline of
Havre. The four are described as being full - rigged large ships
with beautiful poop cabins, large topgallant foc'sles, iron spars and a large
spread of canvas. Prussia bought the Bordeaux-built pair and Peru the Nantes
corvettes when the French Government stopped their sale to the
confederacy. |
| Texas, rechristened America in the Peruvian Navy, was lost
in the tidal wafe and earthquake at Arica, Chile, in 1868. |
Tonnage, 1,500; Length 220'; Beam 30'; Draft, 16'; Speed, 14 knots;
Armament, fourteen 30-pdr. rifles |
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