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The CSS Virginia relied on its heavy armor plating and sloping sides to make enemy shot bounce off. But the heavy armor plating made the ship sluggish to maneuver and its deep draft restricted it from entering shallow water. Although heavily armed, only a few of its guns could be brought to bear at any one time.
An eight-car afternoon rush hour eastbound CSS&SB train departs Hegewisch and is about to cross the NS (former SC&S), in October 2000.
CSS Acadia was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy in January, 1917 as a patrol vessel, replacing the CSS prefix with HMCS, thus becoming HMCS Acadia.