On the cold morning of Dec. 12, 1862, Lt. Cmdr. Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr., the skipper of the federal ironclad, USS Cairo, led a small flotilla up the Yazoo River, north of Vicksburg, to destroy ...

On Dec. 12, 1862, naval history was made when the Union ironclad USS Cairo, involved in the campaign against Vicksburg, was sunk in the Yazoo River in Mississippi in 36 feet of water by an ...

1862 - Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River. 1937 - Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay in Yangtze River near Nanking, China. 1941 - Naval Air Transport Service is established.

CAIRO, Thursday, Dec. 18. The gunboat Marmora arrived to-day from Yazoo River. She brings the crew of the Cairo, which gunboat was destroyed by a torpedo, twenty-one miles up the Yazoo.

1862 - Confederate torpedo (mine) sinks USS Cairo in Yazoo River. 1937 - Japanese aircraft sink USS Panay in Yangtze River near Nanking, China. 1941 - Naval Air Transport Service is established.

CAIRO, Monday, May 25 -- 10 P.M. No boats from below had arrived at Memphis up to 9 o'cloct to-night. All the boats at Milliken's Bend have been sent up the Yazoo, for the purpose doubtless ...

On Dec. 12, 1862, the USS Cairo — an ironclad river gunboat — was struck by two torpedoes and sank within minutes on the Yazoo River, about 10 miles north of Vicksburg, Miss. No one died but the ...

the USS Cairo was the first vessel in history to be sunk by a mine detonated electrically. On Dec. 12, 1862, this Union ironclad gunboat, along with several other vessels, steamed up the Yazoo ...

A crane lifts the armored pilot house of the Union gunboat USS Cairo from the Yazoo River on Sept. 15, 1960, after rediscovery of the wreck. The Cairo was sunk on Dec. 12, 1862, by a Confederate ...

near Cairo. His workers launched the first, the USS St. Louis, from Carondelet on Oct. 12. He paid penalties and delivered all seven by mid-November. The Union gained much more than late fees.