Editing CSS Palmetto State (section)

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|Ship image=CSSPalmettoState.jpg
|Ship caption=A [[wash (visual arts)|wash]] drawing of ''Palmetto State'' by R. G. Skerrett
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|Ship country=Confederate States
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Confederate States of America|naval}}
|Ship name=''Palmetto State''
|Ship namesake=Nickname of [[South Carolina]]
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|Ship laid down=January 1862
|Ship launched=September 1862
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|Ship commissioned=September 1862
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|Ship fate=[[Scuttled]] and burned, 18 February 1865
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|Ship class={{sclass|Richmond|ironclad}}
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|Ship length=*{{cvt|174|ft|m|1}} ([[o/a]])
*{{cvt|150|ft|m|1}} ([[p/p]])
|Ship beam={{cvt|43|ft|m|1}} 
|Ship draft={{cvt|12|ft|m|1}} 
|Ship hold depth={{cvt|12|ft|m|1}}
|Ship power=2 × [[fire-tube boiler]]s
|Ship propulsion=*1 × shaft
*2 × [[Marine steam engine#Direct acting|direct-acting steam engines]]
|Ship speed={{convert|6|-|7|kn|lk=in}}
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|Ship complement=120 officers and men
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|Ship armament=*1 × {{convert|7|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} [[Brooke rifle]]
*1 × {{cvt|6.4|in|mm|0}} Brooke rifle
*2 × {{convert|8|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} [[smoothbore]] guns
|Ship armor=[[Casemate#Naval|Casemate]]: {{cvt|4|in|0}}
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'''CSS{{refn|Confederate States Ship.<ref>Silverstone 2006, p. xviii</ref>|group=Note}} ''Palmetto State''''' was one of six {{sclass|Richmond|ironclad|4}} [[casemate ironclad]] rams built for the [[Confederate States Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. Completed in 1862, she defended [[Charleston, South Carolina]] and was burnt in 1865 to prevent her capture by advancing Union troops.