QUEEN MAB

SwStr

QUEEN MAB, also known as MAB, was a very small side-wheeler whose 
shallow draft made her useful in shoal waters. She served the 
Confederacy as a transport in the Charleston area until the evacuation 
of that city in February 1866, when she was seized by Union forces. She 
was surveyed and condemned in July 1866.

QUEEN OF THE WEST

SwRam:
t. 212 or 406;
l. 180';
b. 37' 6";
dph. 8';
cpl. 120;
a. 1 30-pdr., 1 20-pdr, 3 12-pdr. how.

QUEEN OF THE WEST, Cincinnati-built in 1864, was purchased and converted 
into a ram by the United States Army in 1862. She was one of the vessels 
of Ellet's Ram Fleet operating in conjunction with the U.S. Navy. The 
Confederates sank her off Fort de Russy, La., on the Red River, on 14 
February 1863, and later raised her.

QUEEN OF THE WEST, cottonclad with iron protection around her machinery, 
operated thereafter under the Confederate Army. In conjunction with 
another Confederate ram, WEBB, she forced the surrender of USS INDIANOLA 
off the Red River on 24 February 1863. On 14 April 1863 she was attacked 
on the Atchafalaya River, La., by the Union vessels ESTRELLA, CALHOUN, 
and ARIZONA. A shell from CALHOUN set fire to QUEEN OF THE WEST's cotton 
and her burning wreck drifted down the river for several hours before 
she grounded and exploded.