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| Ship image = CSS Arkansas 2.jpg
| Ship caption = The '' '''C. S. S. Arkansas''' '' by R. G. Skerrett<!-- EDITORS NOTE: Please do not change this caption as it currently conforms to TemplateData for Infobox ship image. Thank you. -->
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{{Infobox ship class overview
| Name = ''Arkansas''-class ironclad
| Builders = John T. Shirley, [[Memphis, Tennessee]]
| Operators = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|Confederate States of America|1861}} [[Confederate States Navy]]}}
| Cost =
| Built range = 1861–1862
| In service range = 1862
| Total ships planned = 2
| Total ships completed = 1
| Total ships lost = 2
}}
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| Ship type = [[Casemate ironclad]]
| Ship tonnage =
| Ship displacement =
| Ship tons burthen =
| Ship length = {{convert|165|ft|m|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship beam = {{convert|35|ft|m|abbr=on|1}}
| Ship draft = {{convert|11|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship power = 2 propellers
| Ship propulsion = 2 [[Marine steam engine|Steam engines]]
| Ship speed ={{convert|7|kn|lk=in}}
| Ship range =
| Ship complement = 200 officers and enlisted men
| Ship armament = Designed for 6–8 guns
| Ship armor =
| Ship notes =
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The '''''Arkansas''-class ironclads''' were a [[ship class|class]] of two [[casemate ironclad]]s ordered by the [[Confederate States Navy]] in 1861 to operate in the [[Western Theater of the American Civil War|Western]] and [[Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War|Trans-Mississippi]] theaters of the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=s7>Silverstone, pp. 150–151</ref>

==Ships==
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!scope="col"|Ship name
!scope="col"|Builder<ref name=s7/>
!scope="col"|[[Laid down]]<ref name=s7/>
!scope="col"|[[Ceremonial ship launching|Launched]]<ref name=s7/>
!scope="col"|[[Ship commissioning|Commissioned]]<ref name=s7/>
!scope="col"|Fate<ref name=s7/>
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|scope="row"|{{ship|CSS|Arkansas||6}}
|rowspan=2|{{nowrap|John T. Shirley, [[Memphis, Tennessee]]}}
|rowspan=2|October 1861
|22 April 1862
|26 May 1862
|Destroyed to prevent capture, 6 August 1862
|-
|scope="row"|{{nowrap|CSS ''Tennessee''}}
|colspan=2 align=center {{n/a}}
|Burned to prevent capture, 5 June 1862
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last1=Bisbee |first1=Saxon T. |title=Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War |publisher=University of Alabama Press |location=Tuscaloosa, Alabama |isbn=978-0-81731-986-1|date=2018}}
* {{cite book |last1=Canney |first1=Donald L. |title=The Confederate Steam Navy 1861-1865 |date=2015 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing|location=Atglen, Pennsylvania |isbn=978-0-7643-4824-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Silverstone|first=Paul H.|title=Civil War Navies 1855–1883|publisher=Routledge |location=New York|year=2006|series=The U.S. Navy Warship Series|isbn=0-415-97870-X}}
* {{cite book |last=Still |first=William N. Jr. |author-link=William N. Still Jr. |year=1985 |title=Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads |orig-date=1971 |location=Columbia, South Carolina |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |isbn=0-87249-454-3}}

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