U. S. S. CAIRO.
Acquisition.--Built at St. Louis, Mo., under contract, by James B. Eads & Co.
Description.--
      Class: Steamer; gunboat; wood.
      Rate, rig, etc.: 4th.
Tonnage.--512.
Battery.--
January, 1862, 6 32-pdrs. 43 cwt., 3 VIII-inch 63 cwt., 4 army rifles 80 cwt., 1 12-pdr. howitzer;
September 30, 1862, 6 32-pdrs. 43 cwt., 3 army rifles 80 cwt., 3 VIII-Inch 63 cwt., 1 30-pdr. Parrott rifle; December 1, 1862, 6 32-pdrs. 43 cwt., 3 army rifles 80 cwt., 8 VIII-inch 63 cwt., 1 30-pdr. Parrott rifle.
Disposition.--She sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo,
        18 miles up the Yazoo River, December 12, 1862.
Remarks.--Sunk 4 or 5 miles below Haynes' Bluff.
The U.S.S. Cairo




Bow-Portside
 Bow-Portside
 Bow-Portside interior
 Armored Pilot House




Cannon-Portside
 Paddlewheel driver
 Steam driver Arm
 Paddlewheel frame




Steamengine-driver
 Steamengine-driver
 Steam Boilers
 Cannon, Starboard side




Rudder Capstan
 Bow Cannon, interior
 Interior, showing iron rails
 Starboard side, with Plating







Cannon and gun port
 Paddlewheel,
sideview, interior
 Rudder, Starboard side
 Stern





  Rudder Closeup
 Closeup, side near stern
Reports concerning the U.S.S. Cairo
Flag-Officer Foote, U. S. Navy, to Lieutenant Prichett, U. S. Navy.
To assume temporary command of the U. S. S. Cairo.    January 13, 1862.
Report of Lieutenant Getty, U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Marmora, of destruction of
U. S. S. Cairoto Captain HENRY WALKE, Commanding Lower Mississippi Flotilla. December 13, 1862.
David D. Porter to A.M.Pennock, Fleet Captain and Commandant, Cairo, IL.
On sinking of Cairo and transfer of Cairo men for other duty  DECEMBER 16, 1862.
David D. Porter to Gideon Welles, Sec. of Navy,  on sinking of Cairo December 17, 1862.
Colonel Charles Rivers Ellet, Commanding Ram Fleet.to  Brigadier General ALFRED W. ELLET, Commanding Mississippi Marine Brigade On Sinking of the Cairo. December 20, 1862
Lieutenant-Commander Owen, U. S. Navy
Expedition into the Yazoo River to inspect the condition of the U. S. S. Cairo, October 13, 1863.





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