High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The USS Lancaster was a sidewheel civilian steamer tow boat built in 1855 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally it was named Lancaster Number 3 then the Kosciusko. In March through May 1862, she was purchased and converted to a ram by Lt. Col. Charles Ellet, Jr. for the War Department early in April 1862 to serve during the American Civil War. After fitting out, she steamed down the Ohio river to join the Ellet Ram Fleet being organizing to counter Confederate rams in the Mississippi River.

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