...nd projected two feet from the stem; it was not well fastened. The rudder and propeller were unprotected. The battery consisted of ten guns, four single-banded Brooke rifles and six nine-inch Dahlgren 's shell guns. Two of the rifles, bow and stern pivots, were seven-inch, of 14,500 pounds; the other two were 6.4-inch (32 pounds calibre), of 9,000 pounds, one on each broadside. The nine-inch gu...