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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], The New rebel steamer "No. 290." (search)
an iron-clad and a very formidable vessel: She can steam from 16 to 18 knots an hour, is perfectly seaworthy; for all practical purposes invulnerable, and will prove to any vessel she may encounter as formidable an antagonist as our own Warrior, the boast of the British navy. This is the "No. 290" as to whose whereabouts Union cruisers have with reason betrayed such anxiety. It had been known for some time that a large and powerful iron vessel was constructing at the dock-yard of Messrs. Laird, Birkenhead; but monsters of the deep are so much the order of the day at that establishment that no one troubled his head much about this new production, or cared to remark the great thickness of the plates which were being used. At the very last moment the Federal authorities seem to have had their suspicion aroused, for the Tuscarora was dispatched to keep watch in the neighborhood of the dock where she lay, and the southern coast of Ireland was also strictly watched. "No. 290,"