Union ironclad gunboat USS Cairo is sunk…

December 1862 CE

Union ironclad gunboat USS Cairo is sunk by a remotely-detonated "torpedo" (naval mine) while clearing mines from the Yazoo River  for the attack on Haines Bluff, becoming the first armored ship sunk by  by a mine remotely detonated by hand, on December 12, 1862.

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Yazoo River Mississippi United States View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Mississippi, State of (U.S.A.) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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