MORTAR BOAT

Definition: MORTAR BOAT

MORTAR BOAT

1. A boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bombarding; a bomb ketch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

At a Mississippi River area port, circa 1862-65. Note: The original caption identified location and date as Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in July 1862. However, the presence of a mortar boat (at right) indicates that either the date is later or the location is above Vicksburg if the photo was taken in 1862. Credit: NAVY.

Engraving published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke's "Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States ..." (1877), depicting the action between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Federal ironclads near Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 10 May 1862. Confederate ships, seen at right, include (from left to right): General Earl Van Dorn, General Sterling Price, General Bragg, General Sumter and Little Rebel. The Federal ironclads, in the center and left, are (from left to right): Mound City, Carondelet and Cincinnati. A Federal mortar boat is by the river bank in the lower right. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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