From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10312 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, December 13 2022 Volume 14 : Number 10312 Today's Subjects: ----------------- We have an important message for you! ["Home Depot Opinion Requested" Subject: We have an important message for you! We have an important message for you! http://targetsurvey.one/TkxF6WekT2VR53UbBTLZ2dgzdlHnY24aXR-Om6kLREKNEEFGKQ http://targetsurvey.one/TOyVUFhy6JqP66d5bjdfgtY44mzSBkue9rlJxkPdBSHcNUMpxg n May 12, 1862, Baltic was transferred by the State of Alabama to the Confederate States Navy. The Confederates placed her under the command of Lieutenant James D. Johnston. The vessel was formally commissioned that month. She served on Mobile Bay, the area around Mobile, Alabama, and on the Tombigbee River. By February 1863, the ship was too deteriorated for active service, and she was relegated to placing naval mines to protect Mobile Bay. Prior to CSS Tennessee's completion in February 1864, Baltic was the only Confederate ironclad on Mobile Bay. Once Tennessee was completed, Johnston was transferred to command her, and Lieutenant Charles Carroll Simms was appointed to command Baltic. Through late 1863 and early 1864, Baltic's condition worsened. By March 20, 1864, naval constructor John L. Porter had surveyed the ship's condition, judging it to be in such poor condition that he recommended that the iron be removed from her. On May 20, Simms wrote that Baltic was very rotten and was "about as fit to go into action as a mud scow". In July, the vessel was partially dismantled, and some of her armor was removed and placed onto the ironclad CSS Nashville. After her armor was removed, Confederate naval of ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10312 ***********************************************