Confederate Navy Ships
Gunboats
Top picture CSS Lady Davis May 18, 1861
CSS Teaser at the right CSS Governor Moore CSS A. B. Seger , dispatch boat, run aground 1 November 1862; seized and placed in service by the UnionCSS Anglo-Norman , side-wheel steamer, burned or captured April 1862[40] CSS Appomattox , tugboat, burned February 10, 1862CSS Bartow , schoonerCS Bayou City , surrendered to U.S. Navy 1865; sold 1866CSS Beaufort , screw steamer, captured by U.S. Navy April 3, 1865CSS Bienville , side-wheel steamer, destroyed incomplete April 1862CSS Black Warrior , schooner, burned February 10, 1862CSS Bombshell , steamer, captured: May 5, 1864CSS Calhoun , sidewheel gunboat, captured: January 23, 1862CSS Carondelet , sidewheel steamer, destroyed April 1862CSS Chattahoochee , twin-screw steamer, scuttled: December, 1864CSS Clifton , side-wheel gunboat, Texas Marine Department , scuttled March 1864CSS Curlew , side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 7, 1862CSS De Soto , side-wheel steamer, captured: September 30, 1862CSS Defiance , river steamer, destroyed: April 28, 1862CSS Diana , steamer, which twice changed hands, managed to survive the Civil War and was presumably decommissionedCSS Drewry , steamer, tender, destroyed: January 24, 1865CSS Ellis , steamer, tugboat, captured: February 10, 1862CSS Equator , steamer, burned: 1865CSS Fanny , screw steamer, iron hull, burned: February 10, 1862CSS Fashion , schoonerCSS Forrest , steamer, tugboat, burned: February 10, 1862CSS Fulton CSS Gaines , side-wheel steamerCSS General Quitman , steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862CSS General Polk , steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862CSS George Page , side-wheel river steamer, burnedCSS Germantown sloop-of-war, sunk as blockship May 10, 1862CSS Governor Moore , 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.CSS Hampton , screw steamer, burned: April 4, 1865CSS Harmony , steamer, tugCSS Helen , side-wheel steamer; Charleston harbor gunboat: sank March 10, 1864CSS Henry Dodge , cutter, schooner riggedCSS Huntress , side-wheel steamerCSS Isondiga , steamer, burned: December 21, 1864CSS Ivy , side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863CSS J. A. Cotton , a side-wheel river steamer, burned: January 14, 1863 (See Bayou Teche and USS Kinsman ). Sometimes called an ironclad since she had a small amount of railroad iron tacked onto her side.CSS Jackson , side-wheel river steamer, tug, sunkCSS Jamestown , side-wheel steamer, sunk: May, 1862CSS Junaluska , steamer, tug, dismantled: 1862CSS Kate Bruce , schooner, scuttledCSS Lady Davis , steamer tug, iron, machinery mounted in CSS Palmetto CSS Launch No. 3 , steamer, captured: April, 1862CSS Launch No. 2 , steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862CSS Livingston , side-wheel steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862CSS Macon , steamerCSS Matilda , barkCSS Maurepas , side-wheel steamer, sunk: June, 1862CSS McRae , screw steamer, sloop rigged, sunk: April 28, 1862CSS Morgan , side-wheel steamer, surrender: 1865CSS Morgan , cutterCSS Morning Light , sail, burned: January 23, 1863CSS Nansemond , twin-screw gunboat, burned: April 3, 1865CSS Neptune , steamer, sunk: January 1, 1863CSS Nina , steamerCSS Oregon , steamer, scuttled: Apr, 1862CSS Pamlico , side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1862CSS Patrick Henry , side-wheel steamer, CSNA school ship, burned: April 4, 1865CSS Pedee , screw steamer, sunk: 1865CSS Plymouth , sloop-of-war, burned: 1862CSS Polk , side-wheel river steamer, burnedCSS Pontchartrain , side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863CSS Raleigh , steamerCSS Rappahannock , formerly St. Nicholas until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, burned: April, 1862CSS Rescue , cutter, schooner riggedCSS Resolute , burned: April 24, 1862CSS Roanoke , screw steamer, destroyed: April 4, 1865CSS Queen of the West CSS Sampson , side-wheel river steamerCSS Savannah , steamer, foundered: August 18, 1863CSS Schultz , formerly A.H. Schultz , until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, used as a flag of truce vessel, sunk: February 17, 1865CSS Sea Bird , side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 10, 1862CSS Selma , side-wheel river steamer, captured: August 5, 1864CSS Spray , steam tug, sunkCSS St. Mary , side-wheel river steamer, burnedCSS Stono , burned: 1865CSS Talomico , side-wheel steamer, sunk: 1863CSS Teaser , tug, captured: 1862CSS Tiger CSS Torpedo , screw steamer, tug/tender, iron, burned: April 4, 1865CSS Tropic CSS Tuscarora , side-wheel steamer, burnedCSS Velocity CSS Washington , schoonerCSS Water Witch , side-wheel steamer, burned: December 19, 1864CSS Winslow , side-wheel river steamer, wreckedCSS Yadkin , steamer, burned: 1865
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