This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy (CSN), used by the

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during the

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between 1861 and 1865. Included are some types of civilian vessels, such as

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s, and

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s which contributed to the war efforts by the CSN. Also included are special types of

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and harbor defense craft.

CSN Warships

The Secretary of the CS Navy,

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, was very aggressive on a limited budget in a land-focused war, and developed a two-pronged warship strategy of building ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo boats and torpedoes.

Batteries

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designs. Initial ocean going ironclad cruisers, such as the French and the British were only just emerging in 1859 and 1860, and were beyond the budget and timeline necessary for rapid force deployment that the CS Navy needed for immediate coastal defenses in 1861. Therefore, the Confederate Congress voted $2 million in May 1861 to buy

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from overseas, and in July and August started work on construction and converting wooden ships locally. On 12 October 1861, the became the first ironclad to enter battle when she fought Union warships on the Mississippi. In February 1862, the even larger joined the Confederate Navy, having been built at Norfolk. The Confederacy built a number of ships designed as versions of the ''Virginia'', of which several saw action. In the failed attack on

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on April 7, 1863 two small ironclads, and participated in the successful defense of the harbor. For the later attack at

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, the Union faced the , the Confederacy's most powerful ironclad.

Ironclad steam powered batteries

The CS Navy ironclad steamer batteries were all designed for national coastal defense. *, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: October 28, 1864 *, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: August 5, 1862 *, triple-screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: June 17, 1863 *, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865 *, ironclad steam sloop, destroyed: February 18, 1865 *, steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: February 18, 1865 *, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: April 26, 1865 *, side-wheel steamer, ironclad gunboat, captured incomplete: February 8, 1862 *, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: April 4, 1865 *, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865 *, twin screw and double center-wheel steamer, ironclad, destroyed: April 28, 1862 *, screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: April 24, 1862 *, steamer, ironclad, burned incomplete: December 21, 1864 *, triple-screw steamer, ironclad, burned: April 25, 1862 *, center-wheel steam sloop, ironclad ram, surrendered: June 3, 1865 *, screw steamer, ironclad, burned before launching: May 21, 1863 *, twin-screw with center-wheel steamer, ironclad, burned: April 17, 1865 *, side-wheel steamer, ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865 *, twin-screw steam sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: March 14, 1865 *, steam sloop, ironclad, accidentally sank: September 27, 1864 *, sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: 18 February 1865 *, steam sloop, ironclad, wrecked: May 7, 1864 *, screw steamer, ironclad ram, scuttled: April 3, 1865 *, steam sloop, ironclad, burned: December 21, 1864 *, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed before launching: June 5, 1862 *, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: August 5, 1864 *, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, never completed, captured: April 4, 1865 *, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865 *, screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862 *, steam sloop, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865 *, twin-screw steamer, ironclad gunboat, destroyed before completion: January 1865

Ironclad floating batteries

CS Navy ironclad floating batteries lacked steam engines for propulsion and were towed into firing positions. *, ironclad floating battery, scuttled: 24 December 1864 *, ironclad floating battery, scuttled: December 21, 1864 *, ironclad floating battery, destroyed: 1865

Wooden floating batteries

CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in the case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense. *, floating battery *, floating battery *, floating battery, scuttled: April 7, 1862 *

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Cruisers

CS Navy cruisers were ocean-going ships designed primarily for the Confederate Navy's strategy of ''guerre de course''. Confederate States Navy cruisers were typically lightly armed, with a couple of large guns or a pivot gun, and often very fast. The Navy planned to add ironclad cruisers to their fleet, successfully procuring one, but too late to be of benefit for the war.

Wooden cruisers

*, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, built in Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company, sunk: June 19, 1864 *, screw steamer, bark-rigged, built in Liverpool, England, seized before delivery: April 5, 1863 * CSS ''America'', racing yacht, scuttled: 1862 *, schooner, captured: June 28, 1863 *, revenue cutter, burned: June 28, 1863 *, screw steamer, burned *, brig, burned: June 12, 1863 *, screw steamer, sloop, captured: October 7, 1864 *, screw steamer, iron, sold: June 1, 1864 *, steamer, destroyed: After leaving port on March 20, 1863 the steamer is destroyed on March 22, 1863 *, bark, burned: June 20, 1863 *, side-wheel steamer, brig rigged, sold and used as privateer ''Rattlesnake'' and sunk, February 28, 1862 *, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, turned over at war's end *, screw steamer, full rigged, iron-framed, turned over to British Government *, screw steamer, sloop, sold: December 19, 1862 *, bark, burned: June 25, 1863 *, twin-screw steamer, sloop, seized: April 9, 1865 by British Government *, bark, seized: December 29, 1863 * CSS ''United States'', frigate, sail, harbor defense use only, scuttled

Ironclad cruisers

But the CS Navy attempts to procure ironclad cruisers from overseas were frustrated as European nations confiscated ships being built for the Confederacy. Only the ''Stonewall'' was completed and successfully delivered, and she arrived in American waters just in time for the end of the war. *CSS ''North Carolina I'', seized October 1863 and commissioned as *CSS ''Mississippi II'', seized October 1863 and commissioned as *, twin-screw steamer, brig rigged, ironclad, surrendered in Cuba at end of war, returned to US, sold to Japan and renamed * CSS ''Cheops'', sister to ''Stonewall'', built in France and sold to Prussia, October 29, 1865, and named * CSS ''Georgia'' screw corvette 2017 tons ,150 tons BOMPage 77, Clowes, William Laird, ''Four Modern Naval Campaigns'', pub Unit Library, 1902, reprinted Cormarket Press, Sold to Peru after the French government stopped its sale to the Confederacy. Taken into service as BAP ''Unión'' 1864. Scuttled January 1881 to avoid capture. * CSS ''Texas'', screw corvette and sister ship of BAP ''Union''. Sold to Peru after the French government stopped its sale to the Confederacy. Taken into service as BAP ''America''. Lost during the Arica tsunami on 13 August 1868. *''Ironclad Frigate No. 61'', arranged by Captain James H. North, CSN, sold to Denmark, commissioned as File:CSSStonewall2.jpg, CSS ''Stonewall'' 1865 File:HMS Scorpion (1863).jpg, HMS ''Scorpion'' 1863 File:HMS Wivern 1865 USNHC NH 52526.jpg, HMS ''Wivern'' 1865 File:Corvette America 1868.jpg, The BAP corvette ''America'' wrecked by the 1868 tsunami at Arica File:BAP Unión.jpg, BAP ''Unión'' 1880 File:Lisle-Lo último de la Unión.png, The scuttled BAP ''Unión'' 1881 File:Danish Ironclad Danmark (1864).jpg, KMD ''Danmark'' 1864 File:PrinzAdalbertBordeaux.jpg, SMS ''Prinz Adalbert'' 1865

Gunboats

*, dispatch boat, run aground 1 November 1862; seized and placed in service by the Union *, side-wheel steamer, burned or captured April 1862 *, tugboat, burned February 10, 1862 *, schooner *, surrendered to U.S. Navy 1865; sold 1866 *, screw steamer, captured by U.S. Navy April 3, 1865 *, side-wheel steamer, destroyed incomplete April 1862 *, schooner, burned February 10, 1862 *, steamer, captured: May 5, 1864 * CSS ''Calhoun'', sidewheel gunboat, captured: January 23, 1862 *, sidewheel steamer, destroyed April 1862 *, twin-screw steamer, scuttled: December, 1864 * CSS ''Clifton'', side-wheel gunboat, Texas Marine Department, scuttled March 1864 *, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 7, 1862 * CSS ''De Soto'', side-wheel steamer, captured: September 30, 1862 *, river steamer, destroyed: April 28, 1862 *, steamer, which twice changed hands, managed to survive the Civil War and was presumably decommissioned *, steamer, tender, destroyed: January 24, 1865 *, steamer, tugboat, captured: February 10, 1862 *, steamer, burned: 1865 *, screw steamer, iron hull, burned: February 10, 1862 *, schooner *, steamer, tugboat, burned: February 10, 1862 * *, side-wheel steamer *, steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862 *, steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862 *, side-wheel river steamer, burned * CSS ''Germantown'' sloop-of-war, sunk as blockship May 10, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged, destroyed: April 23, 1862. Also listed as a Cotton Clad ram (see below) since she had cotton as part of her armor. *, screw steamer, burned: April 4, 1865 *, steamer, tug *, side-wheel steamer; Charleston harbor gunboat: sank March 10, 1864 *, cutter, schooner rigged *, side-wheel steamer *, steamer, burned: December 21, 1864 *, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863 *, a side-wheel river steamer, burned: January 14, 1863 (See

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since she had a small amount of railroad iron tacked onto her side. *, side-wheel river steamer, tug, sunk *, side-wheel steamer, sunk: May, 1862 *, steamer, tug, dismantled: 1862 *, schooner, scuttled *, steamer tug, iron, machinery mounted in CSS ''Palmetto'' *, steamer, captured: April, 1862 *, steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862 *, steamer *, bark *, side-wheel steamer, sunk: June, 1862 *, screw steamer, sloop rigged, sunk: April 28, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, surrender: 1865 *, cutter *, sail, burned: January 23, 1863 *, twin-screw gunboat, burned: April 3, 1865 *, steamer, sunk: January 1, 1863 *, steamer *, steamer, scuttled: Apr, 1862 *, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, CSNA school ship, burned: April 4, 1865 *, screw steamer, sunk: 1865 *, sloop-of-war, burned: 1862 *, side-wheel river steamer, burned *, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863 *, steamer *, formerly ''St. Nicholas'' until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, burned: April, 1862 *, cutter, schooner rigged *, burned: April 24, 1862 *, screw steamer, destroyed: April 4, 1865 * *, side-wheel river steamer *, steamer, foundered: August 18, 1863 *, formerly ''A.H. Schultz'', until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, used as a flag of truce vessel, sunk: February 17, 1865 *, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 10, 1862 *, side-wheel river steamer, captured: August 5, 1864 *, steam tug, sunk *, side-wheel river steamer, burned *, burned: 1865 *, side-wheel steamer, sunk: 1863 *, tug, captured: 1862 * *, screw steamer, tug/tender, iron, burned: April 4, 1865 * *, side-wheel steamer, burned * *, schooner *, side-wheel steamer, burned: December 19, 1864 *, side-wheel river steamer, wrecked *, steamer, burned: 1865

Torpedo boats

*, semi-submersible torpedo boat *, larger version of ''David'', captured incomplete: February, 1865 *CSS ''Gunnison'', screw steam spar torpedo boat *, spar torpedo boat *, steam torpedo boat *, steam torpedo boat, captured: February, 1865 *, spar torpedo boat *, spar torpedo boat * * CSS ''St. Patrick'', semi-submersible torpedo boat or submarine *, screw steamer spar torpedo boat *, spar torpedo boat

CSN Support ships

Government blockade runners

*, side-wheel steamer, captured: September 10, 1864 *, screw steamer *, side-wheel steamer, captured * * CSS ''Lady Stirling'', side-wheel steamer, captured: October 28, 1864 * * * * CSS ''William G. Hewes'', (later SS ''Ella and Annie''), captured: November 9, 1863 * *, side-wheel steamer

Government steamers

*, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 * *, screw steamer, burned: February 10, 1862 * *, side-wheel coastal steamer, captured: December, 1864 *, side-wheel river steamer burned: June 28, 1862 *, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 * * * * * *, stern-wheel river steamer, scuttled: April 7, 1862 * * CSS ''Ida'', side-wheel coastal steamer, captured/burned: December 10, 1864 * *, 1861 *, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 * *, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862 *, 1861 *, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 * * *, side-wheel steamer, captured: January, 1862 *, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 Queen Vicksburg

Government transports

* * CSS ''City of Vicksburg'', side-wheel steamer transport, damaged when rammed on February 3, 1863 then destroyed: February/March 1863 * * CSS ''Darlington'' *, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, captured by its slave pilot

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, May 13, 1862 * *, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862

Cutters

*, revenue cutter, schooner rigged *, revenue cutter, schooner rigged *, revenue cutter, schooner rigged, dismantled *, revenue cutter, schooner rigged

Hospital ships

*, stern-wheel river steamer, burned: April 7, 1862

Tenders and tugs

*, lighthouse tender, schooner rigged *, tugboat *, side-wheel steamer tender, burned *, side-wheel steamer tender, burned: December 21, 1864 *, receiving ship, burned *, side-wheel steamer, tugboat, captured: December 12, 1864 *, steam tugboat, sold: March 8, 1863 * CSS ''Satellite'', sidewheel steamer, gunboat/tugboat, destroyed: August, 1863 *, tender, burned: April 4, 1865 * CSS ''St. Philip'', receiving ship, sunk *, steam tugboat, machinery mounted into CSS ''North Carolina II'' (renamed "Retribution" and "Etta")

Civilian auxiliary

Privateers

*, privateer steam tug *, privateer cutter, schooner rigged, captured: November 12, 1861 *''Bonita'', 8-gun, 1,110-ton privateer steamer *''Boston'', 5-gun privateer steamer operating out of Mobile burned captured barques ''Lenex'' and ''Texana'' *''Charlotte Clark'', 3-gun, 1,110-ton privateer steamer *''Chesapeake'', 4-gun, 60-ton privateer schooner *, privateer schooner, captured on April 15, 1862, but had itself captured the USA Schooner ''Mary Alice'' on July 25, 1861, the USA Barque ''Glenn'' on July 31 of 1861. *''Dove'', 8-gun, 1,170-ton privateer steamer *''Gallatin'', 150-ton privateer schooner with 2 × 12-pdr *''General N.S. Reneau'', privateer steamer *, privateer schooner *, privateer, which captured the USA Brigandine ''William McGilvery'' on July 25, 1861, the USA Schooner ''Protector'' on July 28, 1861. *, privateer steamer, captured: May 11, 1862 *''Hallie Jackson'', privateer brig captured by USS ''Union'' *, privateer screw steamer *, privateer side-wheel steamer, which captured the Barque ''Ocean Eagle'' on May 16, 1861, the ship ''Milan'' in May, 1861, the Schooner ''Etta'' in May, 1861, the Brigandine ''Panama'' on May 29, 1861, the Schooner ''Mermaid'' on May 24, 1861 and the Schooner ''John Adams'' on May 24, 1861, all within its first month of operation in 1861, and which was burned: 1862 *'' J. M. Chapman'', privateer schooner, captured: March 15, 1863 *, privateer schooner *, privateer brig, ran aground: mid-August, 1861 *''Joseph Landis'', 400-ton privateer steamer *''Josephine'', privateer schooner *, privateer schooner, destroyed: September 14, 1861 *''Lamar'', privateer schooner *, privateer schooner *, privateer screw steamer, which captured the US schooner ''Nathaniel Chase'' on July 25, 1861. *''Mocking Bird'', 8-gun, 1,290-ton privateer steamer operating out of New Orleans *, privateer steamer *''Onward'', 70-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 32-pdr *''Paul Jones'', 2-gun, 160-ton privateer schooner *''Pelican'', 10-gun, 1,479-ton privateer steamer *, privateer, went to sea on July 1, 1861 and sunk on July 28, 1861 by the Union Navy frigate . *''Phenix'', 7-gun, 1,644-ton privateer steamer *, privateer schooner *, privateer schooner, captured: June 3, 1861 *, privateer brig *, privateer side-wheel steamer *''Triton'', 30-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 6-pdr *, privateer steamer *, privateer pilot boat, schooner rigged, which was burned on August 9, 1861, after capturing the US brigandine ''B.T. Martin'' about July 28, 1861 and the schooner ''George G. Baker'' on August 9, 1861, on the day of its demise, whereafter the Union quickly recaptured the ''George G. Baker''.

Privateer submersible torpedo boats

*, hand-cranked, sunk: February 17, 1864. Named in honor of its designer, Confederate marine engineer

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. * *, also known as ''Pioneer II'' *'' Bayou Saint John''

Civilian steamers

*, captured: May 7, 1861 *, captured: May 7, 1861 *, of Savannah

Civilian transports

* ''Berwick Bay'', steamer, captured February 3, 1863 *'' O.W. Baker'', steamer, captured February 3, 1863 * ''Moro'', steamer, captured February 3, 1863 *'' Era No. 5'', shallow-draft steamer, captured: February 14, 1863

Civilian blockade runners

*, side-wheel steamer *'' Agnes E. Fry'', paddle steamer * ''Alabama'', schooner *, schooner * ''Annie Dees'', steamer, sloop-rigged *, schooner *, side-wheel steamer * ''Bat'', side-wheel steamship, captured: October 10, 1864 *, screw steamer * ''Caroline'', side-wheel steamer (also known as USS ''Arizona'') *, schooner *, side-wheel steamer * , paddle-steamer *, side-wheel steamer * (also known as ''Constance''), side-wheel steamer *, side-wheel steamer *, side-wheel steamer * ''Edith'', steamer (Later CSS ''Chickamauga'') * ''Ella'', side-wheel steamer * ''Ella and Annie'', side-wheel steamer (Captured April 1863) USS Malvern at the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1865

USS Malvern at the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1865

*, screw steamer * ''Etiwan'', sloop * ''Eugenie'', side-wheel steamer * ''Eugenie Smith'', schooner *, side-wheel steamer * ''General Banks'', paddle steamer (later ''Fanny and Jenny'') * ''Gibraltar'', screw steamer, bark-rigged *, side-wheel steamer * ''Lady Davis'', steamer *, paddle-steamer *, side-wheel steamer *, side-wheel steamer *, screw steamer (later USS ''Memphis'') * ''Monticello'', Cuban blockade runner *, side-wheel steamer * * ''Old Dominion'', paddle steamer *, steamer *, schooner *, sloop *, side-wheel steamer *''San Quintin'', Cuban blockade runner *, schooner * ''Shark'', schooner *, schooner *, (ex-''Leopard''), side-wheel steamer *, side-wheel steamer * ''Thistle'', side-wheel steamer * ''Thomas L. Wragg'', side-wheel steamer, brig-rigged (later, privateer ''Rattlesnake'') *, side-wheel steamer *, schooner *, screw steamer *, steamer *, schooner

Foreign blockade runners

*, screw steamer *, side-wheel steamer *, screw steamer * ''Denbigh'' side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged * ''Fingal'', steamer *, screw steamer * ''Isabel'' steamer *, schooner *, sloop * ''Lark'', side-wheel steamer *, screw steamer * ''Penquin'', side-wheel steamer *, screw steamer *, screw steamer * ''Prince Albert'', side-wheel steamer *, screw steamer * ''Thistle'', screw steamer *, schooner * ''Victory'', screw steamer *, paddle steamer * ''Wren'', side-wheel steamer

CS Army

CSA cotton-clads

Used for river defense, CS Army cottonclads were typically more lightly armored and reinforced than a regular ironclad, such as the ''General Sterling Price'', which was converted by placing a 4-inch oak sheath with a 1-inch iron covering on her bow, and by installing double pine bulkheads filled with compressed cotton bales. Many of the cottonclads were outfitted with

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cotton-clads: *, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862 *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862 *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862 *, stern-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: Apr, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: 1862 *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862 *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862; raised into Union service *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862 *, steamer, schooner rigged, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: April 24, 1862 *, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram *, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: April 24, 1862 *, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: April, 1862 Other CS Army cotton-clads: *, steamer, cotton-clad, burned: 1863 *, steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department *, river steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, exploded: April 14, 1863 *, steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department *, river steamer, cotton-clad ram, transferred to CS Navy early 1865, burned: April, 1865

Other CSA Boats

* CSA ''Bayou City'', CS Army gunboat, side-wheel steamer *, CS Army transport, which was captured by the Union on August 10, 1862 while the transport was on the

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* CSA ''John Simonds'', CS Army support ship, side-wheel steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862 *, CS Army cargo steamer, captured: July 13, 1863 *, CS Army transport, side-wheel steamer, surrendered: May 13, 1862 * CSA ''Neptune'', CS Army tugboat, sank: January 1, 1863

Other

Prizes

*''Alvarado'' - prize bark, captured: by privateer ''Jefferson Davis'', July 21, 1861 *''Enchantress'' - prize schooner, captured: by privateer ''Jefferson Davis'' July 6, 1861

Undetermined

*CSS ''Segar'' *CSS ''Smith'' *CSS ''W. R. Miles''

References

Bibliography

*Coski, John M. ''Capital Navy: The Men, Ships and Operations of the James River Squadron'', Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996, * *Gardiner ''Steam, Steel and Shellfire'' *Lambert A., ''Iron Hulls and Armour Plate'' * *Scharf, J. Thomas. ''History of the Confederate States Navy: From its Organization to the Surrender of its Last Vessel.'' New York: Rogers and Sherwood, 1887; repr. The Fairfax Press, 1977. *

External links

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