CSS Virginia Design
The CSS Virginia was a remodeled USS Merrimack, which sunk when the Union Forces abandoned the Norfolk Naval Yards in April 1861. When the Confederacy raised the USS Merrimack, they decided to salvage what was left of it and make a steam-powered ironclad warship.
Stephen Mallory, the Confederate Secretary, met and commissioned Lieutenant John Brooke to begin working on a design for an ironclad warship. Lieutenant John Brooke drafted a design for CSS Virginia. Brooke envisioned a ship as a casemate ironclad with mounted guns in conventional broadside configuration. The casemate will be mounted with an extended deck on the bow and stern. Secretary Mallory immediately approved of the design and appointed John L. Porter to oversee its construction and conversion. John L. Porter was the naval constructor assigned to the Gosport Navy Yard. William P. Williamson, Chief Engineer of the Navy, was responsible for the ship’s machinery. Brooke, on the other hand, was in-charge of CSS Virginia’s iron plate and armament.
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