Probably the number of guns carried. -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Lane Sent: Monday, 5 August 2013 6:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MAR] Civil War U S Naval Operations During the U. S. Civil War printed in Northern newspapers under the headline "Naval Record" one often finds the names of commissioned vessels followed by a single number (at least no double digit examples have been noted). The following are random examples mostly from March 1862: ship Ino, 8 (later 9) steamer Rhode Island, 5 steamer Madgie, 2 steam sloop Tuscarora, 7 steamer Quaker City, 5 steam sloop Iroquois, 6 steam sloop Kearsage, 7 I presume these numbers refer to naval squadrons or operating theaters. Can anyone supply more specific knowledge of their meaning? Thanks in advance. Bruce Lane ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message