Confederate Navy Ships

Ironclad Steam Powered Batteries

Ironclad Floating Batteries

Cruisers

Gunboats

Torpedo Boats

Confederate Blockade Runners

Confederate Government Steamers

Confederate Government Transports

Cutters

Hospital Ships

Tenders and Tugs

Privateers

Submarines

Civilian Steamers

Civilian Transports

Civilian Blockade Runners

Foreign Blockade Runners

CSA Cotton Clads

Other CSA Boats

  • CSS Albemarle, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: October 28, 1864[1]
  • CSS Arkansas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: August 5, 1862[2]
  • CSS Atlanta, triple-screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: June 17, 1863[3]
  • CSS Baltic, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865[4]
  • CSS Charleston, ironclad steam sloop, destroyed: February 18, 1865[5]
  • CSS Chicora, steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: February 18, 1865[6]
  • CSS Columbia, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: April 26, 1865[7]
  • CSS Eastport, side-wheel steamer, ironclad gunboat, captured incomplete: February 8, 1862[8]
  • CSS Fredericksburg, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: April 4, 1865[9]
  • CSS Huntsville, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865[10]
  • CSS Louisiana, twin screw and double center-wheel steamer, ironclad, destroyed: April 28, 1862[11]
  • CSS Manassas, screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: April 24, 1862[12]
  • CSS Milledgeville, steamer, ironclad, burned incomplete: December 21, 1864[13]
  • CSS Mississippi, triple-screw steamer, ironclad, burned: April 25, 1862[14]
  • CSS Missouri, center-wheel steam sloop, ironclad ram, surrendered: June 3, 1865[15]
  • CSS Mobile, screw steamer, ironclad, burned before launching: May 21, 1863[16]
  • CSS Muscogee, twin-screw with center-wheel steamer, ironclad, burned: April 17, 1865[17]
  • CSS Nashville, side-wheel steamer, ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865[18]
  • CSS Neuse, twin-screw steam sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: March 14, 1865[19]
  • CSS North Carolina, steam sloop, ironclad, accidentally sank: September 27, 1864[20]
  • CSS Palmetto State, sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: 18 February 1865[21]
  • CSS Raleigh, steam sloop, ironclad, wrecked: May 7, 1864[22]
  • CSS Richmond, screw steamer, ironclad ram, scuttled: April 3, 1865[23]
  • CSS Savannah, steam sloop, ironclad, burned: December 21, 1864[24]
  • CSS Tennessee, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed before launching: June 5, 1862[25]
  • CSS Tennessee, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: August 5, 1864[25]
  • CSS Texas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, never completed, captured: April 4, 1865[26]
  • CSS Tuscaloosa, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865[27]
  • CSS Virginia, screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862[28]
  • CSS Virginia II, steam sloop, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865[29]
  • CSS Wilmington, twin-screw steamer, ironclad gunboat, destroyed before completion: January 1865[30]

    • Ironclad floating batteries[]

    CS Navy ironclad floating batteries lacked steam engines for propulsion and were towed into firing positions.

    Wooden floating batteries[]

    The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor

    CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in the case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense.

    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[]

    • CSS Alabama, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, built in Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company, sunk: June 19, 1864
    • CSS Alexandra, screw steamer, bark-rigged, built in Liverpool, England, seized before delivery: April 5, 1863
    • CSS America, racing yacht, scuttled: 1862
    • CSS Archer, schooner, captured: June 28, 1863
    • CSS Caleb Cushing, revenue cutter, burned: June 28, 1863
    • CSS Chickamauga, screw steamer, burned
    • CSS Clarence, brig, burned: June 12, 1863
    • CSS Florida, screw steamer, sloop, captured: October 7, 1864
    • CSS Georgia, screw steamer, iron, sold: June 1, 1864
    • CSS Georgiana, steamer, destroyed: After leaving port on March 20, 1863 the steamer is destroyed on March 22, 1863
    • CSS Lapwing, bark, burned: June 20, 1863
    • CSS Nashville, side-wheel steamer, brig rigged, sold and used as privateer Rattlesnake and sunk, February 28, 1862
    • CSS Rappahannock, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, turned over at war's end
    • CSS Shenandoah, screw steamer, full rigged, iron-framed, turned over to British Government
    • CSS Sumter, screw steamer, sloop, sold: December 19, 1862
    • CSS Tacony, bark, burned: June 25, 1863
    • CSS Tallahassee, twin-screw steamer, sloop, seized: April 9, 1865 by British Government
    • CSS Tuscaloosa, 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 HMS Scorpion
    • CSS Mississippi II, seized October 1863 and commissioned as HMS Wivern
    • CSS Stonewall, twin-screw steamer, brig rigged, ironclad, surrendered in Cuba at end of war, returned to US, sold to Japan and renamed Kōtetsu
    • CSS Cheops, sister to Stonewall, built in France and sold to Prussia, October 29, 1865, and named SMS Prinz Adalbert
    • CSS Georgia screw corvette 2017 tons [1,150 tons BOM].[37] 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.[38][39]
    • 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 Danmark
    • CSS Stonewall 1865

      CSS Stonewall 1865

    • HMS Scorpion 1863

      HMS Scorpion 1863

    • HMS Wivern 1865

      HMS Wivern 1865

    • The BAP corvette America wrecked by the 1868 tsunami at Arica

      The BAP corvette America wrecked by the 1868 tsunami at Arica

    • BAP Unión 1880

      BAP Unión 1880

    • The scuttled BAP Unión 1881

      The scuttled BAP Unión 1881

    • KMD Danmark 1864

      KMD Danmark 1864

    • SMS Prinz Adalbert 1865

      SMS Prinz Adalbert 1865


    Gunboats[]

    Top picture CSS Lady Davis May 18, 1861
    CSS Teaser at the right
    CSS Governor Moore

    Torpedo boats[]

    Photograph of a captured David class torpedo boat (possibly CSS David herself), taken after the fall of Charleston in 1865

    CSN Support ships[]

    Government blockade runners[]

    CSS Robert E Lee
    CSS William G Hewes later USS Malvern
    CSS Florida renamed USS Henderick Hudson
    CSS Lady Sterling renamed USS Hornet

    Government steamers[]

    Federal ram USS Queen of the West attacks CSS City of Vicksburg.

    Government transports[]

    CSS Planter

    Cutters[]

    Hospital ships[]

    Tenders and tugs[]

    Uncle Ben captured 1861

    Civilian auxiliary[]

    Privateers[]

    • A. C. Gunnison, privateer steam tug
    • Beauregard, privateer cutter, schooner rigged, captured: November 12, 1861
    • Bonita, 8-gun, 1,110-ton privateer steamer[52]
    • Boston, 5-gun privateer steamer operating out of Mobile burned captured barques Lenex and Texana[52]
    • Charlotte Clark, 3-gun, 1,110-ton privateer steamer[52]
    • Chesapeake, 4-gun, 60-ton privateer schooner[52]
    • Dixie, 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[52]
    • Gallatin, 150-ton privateer schooner with 2 × 12-pdr[52]
    • General N.S. Reneau, privateer steamer[52]
    • Gibralter, privateer schooner
    • Gordon, privateer, which captured the USA Brigandine William McGilvery on July 25, 1861, the USA Schooner Protector on July 28, 1861.
    • Governor A. Mouton, privateer steamer, captured: May 11, 1862
    • Hallie Jackson, privateer brig captured by USS Union[52]
    • Isabella, privateer screw steamer
    • J. C. Calhoun, 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
    • J. O. Nixon, privateer schooner
    • Jefferson Davis, privateer brig, ran aground: mid-August, 1861
    • Joseph Landis, 400-ton privateer steamer[52]
    • Josephine, privateer schooner[52]
    • Judah, privateer schooner, destroyed: September 14, 1861
    • Lamar, privateer schooner[52]
    • Lorton, privateer schooner
    • Mariner, 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[52]
    • Music, privateer steamer
    • Onward, 70-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 32-pdr[52]
    • Paul Jones, 2-gun, 160-ton privateer schooner[52]
    • Pelican, 10-gun, 1,479-ton privateer steamer[52]
    • Petrel, privateer, went to sea on July 1, 1861 and sunk on July 28, 1861 by the Union Navy frigate USS St. Lawrence.
    • Phenix, 7-gun, 1,644-ton privateer steamer[52]
    • Sallie, privateer schooner
    • Savannah, privateer schooner, captured: June 3, 1861
    • Sealine, privateer brig
    • Theodora, privateer side-wheel steamer
    • Triton, 30-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 6-pdr[52]
    • V. H. Ivy, privateer steamer
    • York, 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[]

    Civilian steamers[]

    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[]

    Ella and Annie as USS Malvern

    Foreign blockade runners[]


    CS Army[]

    CSA cotton-clads[]

    USS (ex-CSS) Little Rebel
    USS {later CSS} Queen of the West
    CSS Stonewall Jackson
    CSS Governor Moore after the fight
    Ex-CSS USS General Bragg
    Ex-CSS General Price
    CSS Webb burned April 1865


    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 rams.

    River Defense Fleet cotton-clads:

    Other CS Army cotton-clads:

    Other CSA Boats[]

    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

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