 CSS Colonel Lovell

CSS "Colonel Lovell" was a cotton-clad ram of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War

The ship was built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1843, as "Hercules", and was owned by the Ocean Towing Co. of New Orleans.She was taken over in 1861 by General Mansfield Lovell, commanding the New Orleans military district, and converted to a cottonclad ram by installation of double pine bulwarks filled with compressed cotton and one-inch iron plates on each bow.