CSS Tennessee (1863)
Ironclad warship built by the Confederate Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see CSS Tennessee and USS Tennessee.
CSS Tennessee was a casemate ironclad ram built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. She served as the flagship of Admiral Franklin Buchanan (who would later be captured in the same ship), commander of the Mobile Squadron, after her commissioning. She was captured in 1864 by the Union Navy during the Battle of Mobile Bay and then participated in the Union's subsequent Siege of Fort Morgan. Tennessee was decommissioned after the war and sold in 1867 for scrap.
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USS Tennessee in 1865 | |
History | |
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Confederate States | |
Name | Tennessee |
Namesake | State of Tennessee |
Builder | Henry D. Bassett |
Laid down | October 1862 |
Launched | February 1863 |
Commissioned | 16 February 1864 |
Captured | At the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 |
United States | |
Name | Tennessee |
Acquired | 5 August 1864 |
Commissioned | 5 August 1864 |
Decommissioned | 19 August 1865 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 27 November 1867 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Casemate ironclad |
Displacement | 1,273 long tons (1,293 t) |
Length | 209 ft (63.7 m) |
Beam | 48 ft (14.6 m) |
Draft | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
Installed power | 4 boilers |
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Speed | 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) |
Complement | 133 officers and enlisted men |
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Armor | |
Service record | |
Commanders: | Lieutenant James D. Johnston |
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