List of ships of the Confederate States Navy
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This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy (CSN), used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865. Included are some types of civilian vessels, such as blockade runners, steamboats, and privateers which contributed to the war efforts by the CSN. Also included are special types of floating batteries and harbor defense craft.
CSN Warships[]
The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory, 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[]
Based upon the successful employment of ironclad warships, particularly batteries, at the Battle of Kinburn, Britain and France decided to focus on armor plated warships, starting with coastal battery designs. Initial ocean going ironclad cruisers, such as the French Gloire and the British HMS Warrior 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 ironclads from overseas, and in July and August started work on construction and converting wooden ships locally. On 12 October 1861, the Manassas became the first ironclad to enter battle when she fought Union warships on the Mississippi. In February 1862, the even larger Virginia 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 Charleston on April 7, 1863 two small ironclads, Palmetto State and Chicora participated in the successful defense of the harbor. For the later attack at Mobile Bay, the Union faced the Tennessee, the Confederacy's most powerful ironclad.
Ironclad steam powered batteries[]
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The CS Navy ironclad steamer batteries were all designed for national coastal defense.
- 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]
- , 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]
- , 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.
- CSS Arctic, ironclad floating battery, scuttled: 24 December 1864[31]
- CSS Georgia, ironclad floating battery, scuttled: December 21, 1864[32]
- CSS Phoenix, ironclad floating battery, destroyed: 1865[33]
Wooden floating batteries[]
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CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in the case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense.
- , floating battery[34]
- , floating battery[35]
- CSS New Orleans, floating battery, scuttled: April 7, 1862[36]
- Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor
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
- , 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
- , 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
- , 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]
- , 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
HMS Scorpion 1863
HMS Wivern 1865
The BAP corvette America wrecked by the 1868 tsunami at Arica
BAP Unión 1880
The scuttled BAP Unión 1881
KMD Danmark 1864
SMS Prinz Adalbert 1865
Gunboats[]
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- CSS A. B. Seger, dispatch boat, run aground 1 November 1862; seized and placed in service by the Union
- CSS Anglo-Norman, side-wheel steamer, burned or captured April 1862[40]
- CSS Appomattox, tugboat, burned February 10, 1862
- , schooner
- CS Bayou City, surrendered to U.S. Navy 1865; sold 1866
- CSS Beaufort, screw steamer, captured by U.S. Navy April 3, 1865
- , side-wheel steamer, destroyed incomplete April 1862
- CSS Black Warrior, schooner, burned February 10, 1862
- CSS Bombshell, steamer, captured: May 5, 1864
- CSS Calhoun, sidewheel gunboat, captured: January 23, 1862
- CSS Carondelet, sidewheel steamer, destroyed April 1862
- CSS Chattahoochee, twin-screw steamer, scuttled: December, 1864
- CSS Clifton, side-wheel gunboat, Texas Marine Department, scuttled March 1864
- CSS Curlew, 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
- CSS Drewry, steamer, tender, destroyed: January 24, 1865
- CSS Ellis, steamer, tugboat, captured: February 10, 1862
- , steamer, burned: 1865
- CSS Fanny, screw steamer, iron hull, burned: February 10, 1862
- , schooner
- CSS Forrest, steamer, tugboat, burned: February 10, 1862
- CSS Fulton
- CSS Gaines, side-wheel steamer
- , steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862
- CSS General Polk, steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862
- CSS George Page, side-wheel river steamer, burned
- CSS Germantown sloop-of-war, sunk as blockship May 10, 1862
- CSS 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, 1865
- , steamer, tug
- , side-wheel steamer; Charleston harbor gunboat: sank March 10, 1864
- , cutter, schooner rigged
- , side-wheel steamer
- CSS Isondiga, steamer, burned: December 21, 1864
- CSS Ivy, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863
- CSS 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, sunk
- CSS Jamestown, side-wheel steamer, sunk: May, 1862
- CSS Junaluska, steamer, tug, dismantled: 1862
- , schooner, scuttled
- CSS Lady Davis, steamer tug, iron, machinery mounted in CSS Palmetto
- , steamer, captured: April, 1862
- , steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862
- , side-wheel steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862
- CSS Macon, steamer
- , bark
- CSS Maurepas, side-wheel steamer, sunk: June, 1862
- CSS McRae, screw steamer, sloop rigged, sunk: April 28, 1862
- CSS Morgan, side-wheel steamer, surrender: 1865
- , cutter
- , sail, burned: January 23, 1863
- , twin-screw gunboat, burned: April 3, 1865
- , steamer, sunk: January 1, 1863
- , steamer
- CSS Oregon, steamer, scuttled: Apr, 1862
- , side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1862
- CSS Patrick Henry, side-wheel steamer, CSNA school ship, burned: April 4, 1865
- CSS Pedee, screw steamer, sunk: 1865
- , sloop-of-war, burned: 1862
- , side-wheel river steamer, burned
- , side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863
- CSS Raleigh, steamer
- CSS Rappahannock, formerly St. Nicholas until seized and purchased in 1861, side-wheel steamer, burned: April, 1862
- , cutter, schooner rigged
- CSS Resolute, burned: April 24, 1862
- , screw steamer, destroyed: April 4, 1865
- CSS Queen of the West
- CSS Sampson, side-wheel river steamer
- CSS Savannah, 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
- CSS Sea Bird, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 10, 1862
- CSS Selma, side-wheel river steamer, captured: August 5, 1864
- CSS Spray, steam tug, sunk
- , side-wheel river steamer, burned
- CSS Stono, burned: 1865
- , side-wheel steamer, sunk: 1863
- CSS Teaser, tug, captured: 1862
- , screw steamer, tug/tender, iron, burned: April 4, 1865
- CSS Tuscarora, side-wheel steamer, burned
- , schooner
- CSS Water Witch, side-wheel steamer, burned: December 19, 1864
- , side-wheel river steamer, wrecked
- , steamer, burned: 1865
Torpedo boats[]
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- CSS David, semi-submersible torpedo boat[41]
- , larger version of David, captured incomplete: February, 1865
- Gunnison, screw steam spar torpedo boat[42]
- , spar torpedo boat[43]
- , steam torpedo boat[44]
- , steam torpedo boat, captured: February, 1865[45]
- CSS Scorpion, spar torpedo boat[46]
- CSS Squib, spar torpedo boat[47]
- CSS St. Patrick, semi-submersible torpedo boat or submarine[48]
- , screw steamer spar torpedo boat[49]
- , spar torpedo boat[50]
CSN Support ships[]
Government blockade runners[]
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- CSS Advance, side-wheel steamer, captured: September 10, 1864
- CSS Florida, screw steamer
- CSS Harriet Lane, side-wheel steamer, captured
- CSS Lady Stirling, side-wheel steamer, captured: October 28, 1864
- CSS Owl
- CSS Rob Roy
- CSS Robert E. Lee
- CSS William G. Hewes, (later SS Ella and Annie), captured: November 9, 1863
Government steamers[]
- , side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
- CSS Atlanta
- CSS Appomattox, screw steamer, burned: February 10, 1862
- CSS Beaufort
- , side-wheel coastal steamer, captured: December, 1864
- , side-wheel river steamer burned: June 28, 1862
- , side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
- CSS Curlew
- CSS Ellis
- CSS Fanny
- CSS George Page
- CSS Governor Moore
- CSS Grampus, stern-wheel river steamer, scuttled: April 7, 1862
- CSS Grand Duke
- CSS Ida, side-wheel coastal steamer, captured/burned: December 10, 1864
- CSS Jamestown
- CSS Nashville, 1861
- , side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
- CSS Patrick Henry
- , side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862
- CSS Raleigh, 1861
- CSS Red Rover, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
- CSS Sea Bird
- CSS Selma
- , side-wheel steamer, captured: January, 1862
- , side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
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Government transports[]
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- CSS Bombshell
- CSS City of Vicksburg, side-wheel steamer transport, damaged when rammed on February 3, 1863 then destroyed: February/March 1863
- CSS Cotton Plant
- CSS Darlington
- , side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
- CSS The Planter, side-wheel steamer, captured by its slave pilot Robert Smalls, May 13, 1862
- CSS Sumter
- , side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862
Cutters[]
- , revenue cutter, schooner rigged
- , revenue cutter, schooner rigged
- , revenue cutter, schooner rigged, dismantled
- CSS Pickens, revenue cutter, schooner rigged
Hospital ships[]
- , stern-wheel river steamer, burned: April 7, 1862
Tenders and tugs[]
- , lighthouse tender, schooner rigged
- CSS Beaufort, tugboat
- , side-wheel steamer tender, burned
- , side-wheel steamer tender, burned: December 21, 1864
- CSS Indian Chief, receiving ship, burned
- CSS Resolute, side-wheel steamer, tugboat, captured: December 12, 1864
- , steam tugboat, sold: March 8, 1863
- CSS Satellite, sidewheel steamer, gunboat/tugboat, destroyed: August, 1863[51]
- , tender, burned: April 4, 1865
- , receiving ship, sunk
- , steam tugboat, machinery mounted into CSS North Carolina II
Civilian auxiliary[]
Privateers[]
- , 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]
- , 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]
- , 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[52]
- , 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[52]
- Josephine, privateer schooner[52]
- , privateer schooner, destroyed: September 14, 1861
- Lamar, privateer schooner[52]
- , 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[52]
- , 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]
- , 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]
- , privateer schooner
- , privateer schooner, captured: June 3, 1861
- , privateer brig
- , privateer side-wheel steamer
- Triton, 30-ton privateer schooner with 1 × 6-pdr[52]
- , 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[]
- H. L. Hunley, hand-cranked, sunk: February 17, 1864. Named in honor of its designer, Confederate marine engineer Horace Lawson Hunley.
- Pioneer
- American Diver, 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
- , steamer, captured February 3, 1863
- , steamer, captured February 3, 1863
- Era No. 5, shallow-draft steamer, captured: February 14, 1863
Civilian blockade runners[]
- Adela, side-wheel steamer
- Agnes E. Fry, paddle steamer
- Alabama, schooner
- Annie, schooner
- Annie Dees, steamer, sloop-rigged
- Ariel, schooner
- Banshee, side-wheel steamer
- Bat, side-wheel steamship, captured: October 10, 1864
- Bermuda, screw steamer
- Caroline, side-wheel steamer (also known as USS Arizona)
- Charlotte, schooner
- Chatham, side-wheel steamer
- , paddle-steamer
- Colonel Lamb, side-wheel steamer
- (also known as Constance), side-wheel steamer
- Darlington, side-wheel steamer
- Donegal, side-wheel steamer
- Edith, steamer (Later CSS Chickamauga)
- Ella, side-wheel steamer
- Ella and Annie, side-wheel steamer (Captured April 1863)
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- Emma, 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
- Granite City, side-wheel steamer
- Lady Davis, steamer
- Lelia, paddle-steamer
- Magnolia, side-wheel steamer
- , side-wheel steamer
- Memphis, screw steamer (later USS Memphis)
- Monticello, Cuban blockade runner
- Nita, side-wheel steamer
- Old Dominion, paddle steamer
- Preston, steamer
- Rob Roy, schooner
- Rosalie, sloop
- , side-wheel steamer
- San Quintin, Cuban blockade runner
- Sarah and Caroline, schooner
- Shark, schooner
- Stonewall, schooner
- , (ex-Leopard), side-wheel steamer
- Syren, side-wheel steamer
- Thistle, side-wheel steamer
- Thomas L. Wragg, side-wheel steamer, brig-rigged (later, privateer Rattlesnake)
- Tristram Shandy, side-wheel steamer
- Two Sisters, schooner
- Virginia, screw steamer
- Wando, steamer
- Wild Cat, schooner
Foreign blockade runners[]
- Antona, screw steamer
- Britannia, side-wheel steamer
- Don, screw steamer
- Denbigh side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged
- Fingal, steamer
- Gertrude, screw steamer
- Isabel steamer
- J. W. Wilder, schooner
- Julia, sloop
- , side-wheel steamer
- Lodona, screw steamer
- , side-wheel steamer
- Peterhoff, screw steamer
- Preston, screw steamer
- Prince Albert, side-wheel steamer
- Princess Royal, screw steamer
- Thistle, screw steamer
- Velocity, schooner
- Victory, screw steamer
- Vulture, paddle steamer
- , side-wheel steamer
CS Army[]
CSA cotton-clads[]
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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:
- CSS Colonel Lovell, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
- CSS General Beauregard, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
- CSS General Bragg, 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
- CSS General Earl Van Dorn, steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned
- CSS General M. Jeff Thompson, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
- CSS General Sterling Price, steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862; raised into Union service
- CSS General Sumter, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862
- CSS Governor Moore, steamer, schooner rigged, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: April 24, 1862
- CSS Little Rebel, steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: June 6, 1862
- , side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram
- CSS Stonewall Jackson, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: April 24, 1862
- , side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: April, 1862
Other CS Army cotton-clads:
- CSS Grand Duke, steamer, cotton-clad, burned: 1863
- , steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department
- CSS Queen of the West, river steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, exploded: April 14, 1863
- , steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department
- CSS Webb, 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 Savannah River in Georgia
- , 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
See also[]
- List of ironclads
- Blockade runners of the American Civil War
- Commerce raiding
- Confederate privateer
- Cotton-clad
- Letters of marque
- Ransom Bond
- Bibliography of American Civil War naval history
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External links[]
- Lists of ships by country
- Ships of the Confederate States of America
- Ships of the Confederate States Navy
- American Civil War-related lists
- Maritime history of the United States