EstrellaFormer name retained.(SwStr: t. 438; a. l 30-par. r., 2 32-pdr., 2 24-pdr. how.)Estrella, a side wheel steamer, was transferred from the Army to the Navy late in 1862, and commissioned soon after, Lieutenant Commander A. P. Cooke in command.Assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, Estrella served throughout the war off Mobile and New Orleans, along the Texas coast, and up the rivers flowing into the Gulf.
A 15th century CE illustration showing the expulsion of the Cathars heretics from Carcassonne during the Albigensian Crusade in southern France (1209-1229 CE). (British Library, London)