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

The CS Navy attempt 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