CSS Grampus
CSS Grampus was a stern-wheel river steamer built in
1856 at
McKeesport, Pennsylvania, for civilian employment. Taken by the
Confederate Army in early
1862, she served as a transport and gunboat on the
Mississippi River.
Grampus was scuttled off Island Number Ten on
April 7,
1862, when that fortification surrendered. However, she was apparently raised by Union forces and was probably destroyed by fire on
January 11,
1863, under the name
Grampus No. 2.
See also USS Grampus
General Characteristics