Editing CSS Arkansas (section)

{{Distinguish|USS Arkansas}}
{{Short description|1862 Arkansas-class ironclad}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2018}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2018}}
{|{{Infobox ship begin}}
{{Infobox ship image
| Ship image = CSS Arkansas 2.jpg
| Ship caption =A drawing of C. S. S. '' Arkansas'' by R. G. Skerrett<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not change this caption as it currently conforms to TemplateData for Infobox ship image. Thank you. -->
}}
{{Infobox ship career
| Ship country = [[Confederate States of America|Confederate States]]
| Ship flag = {{flagicon|Confederate States|1861}}
| Ship name = ''Arkansas''
| Ship namesake = [[Arkansas|State of Arkansas]]
| Ship ordered = August 24, 1861
| Ship builder = John T. Shirley, [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[Tennessee]]
| Ship laid down = October 1861
| Ship launched = April 1862
| Ship commissioned= April 25, 1862
| Ship fate = Destroyed by her crew, {{Nowrap|August 6, 1862}}
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
| Header caption =
| Ship class = {{sclass|Arkansas|ironclad}}
| Ship displacement = {{cvt|1200|LT|t|lk=on}} (designed)
| Ship length = {{convert|165|ft|m|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship beam = {{convert|35|ft|m|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship draft = {{convert|11.5|ft|m|abbr=on|1}} (designed)
| Ship power= *6 [[boiler]]s
| Ship propulsion= 2 shafts; 2 [[Marine steam engine#Direct acting|direct-acting steam engines]]
| Ship speed = {{cvt|8|mph|kn|lk=out}}
| Ship complement = 232 officers and men
| Ship armament = *[[Naval ram|Ram]]
* 2 × {{convert|8|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} [[Columbiad]] [[smoothbore]]s
* 4–5 × {{convert|6.4|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} [[Muzzle-loading rifle|rifled muzzle-loading guns]]
* 2 × {{convert|9|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} [[Dahlgren gun|Dahlgren]] [[smoothbore gun]]s
* 1–2 × [[32-pounder gun|32-pdr]] smoothbores
| Ship armor =* [[Casemate]]: Railroad iron over wood and compressed [[cotton]] 
*[[Pilothouse]]: {{convert|2|in|mm|abbr=on}} 
*Casemate roof: {{cvt|0.5|in|mm|0}} 
*Casemate stern: Thin iron sheets
}}
|}
'''CSS ''Arkansas'' ''' was the [[lead ship]] of [[Arkansas-class ironclad|her class]] of two [[casemate ironclad]]s built for the [[Confederate States Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. Completed in 1862, she saw combat in the [[Western Theater of the American Civil War|Western Theater]] when she steamed through a [[United States Navy]] fleet at [[Vicksburg, Mississippi|Vicksburg]] in July. ''Arkansas'' was set on fire and destroyed by her crew after her engines broke down several weeks later. Her remains lie under a [[levee]] above [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] at {{Coord|30|29|14|N|91|12|5|W}}.