Six ships of the United States Navy have been named USS ''Tennessee'' in honor of the 16th state. * , originally ''Tennessee'', was a

paddlewheel steamer A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water. In antiquity, paddle wheelers followed the development of poles, oars and sails, where the first uses were w ...

captured from the

Confederacy Confederacy or confederate may refer to: States or communities * Confederate state or confederation, a union of sovereign groups or communities * Confederate States of America, a confederation of secessionist American states that existed between ...

at New Orleans on 2 April 1862. * was a Confederate

ironclad An ironclad is a steam engine, steam-propelled warship protected by Wrought iron, iron or steel iron armor, armor plates, constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships ...

captured from the Confederacy in the Battle of Mobile Bay on 16 February 1864. * was a wooden screw frigate originally built and named as ''Madawaska''. * was the lead ship of her class of armored cruiser. * was the lead ship of her class of

battleship A battleship is a large armored warship with a main battery consisting of large caliber guns. It dominated naval warfare in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term ''battleship'' came into use in the late 1880s to describe a type of ...

, was damaged in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, repaired and saw action in the Pacific during World War II, broken up 1959. * is an

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