The USS Carondolet was a Union Ironclad River gunboat. She was built by James Eads and Co., St. Louis, Missouri. She was famous for running the batteries of Island No 10 which having done so cause the Confederate army to pull back and opened the way across the Mississippi River for the Union army
This model of the USS Carondolet is a 1/600 scale Union Eads Class gunboat. She had 4 × 8-inch smoothbores, 1 × 50-pounder rifle,
1 × 42-pounder rifle, 6 × 32-pounder rifles, 1 × 30-pounder rifle,
1 × 12-pounder rifle. She was 175’ long x 51’ in beam, displaced about 512 tons, had a maximum speed of about 5 kts and about 215 crew.