This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy (CSN), used by the Confed erate States of America during

the American Civil War between 1861 and 1865. Inc luded are some types of civilian vessels, such as blockade runners, steamboats, and privateers which contributed to the war efforts by the CSN. Also included ar e special types of floating batteries and harbor defense craft. Contents [hide] 1 CSN Warships 1.1 Batteries 1.1.1 Ironclad steam-powered batteries 1.1.2 Ironclad floating batteries 1.1.3 Wooden floating batteries 1.2 Cruisers 1.2.1 Wooden cruisers 1.2.2 Ironclad cruisers 1.3 Gunboats 1.4 Torpedo boats 2 CSN Support ships 2.1 Government blockade runners 2.2 Government steamers 2.3 Government transports 2.4 Cutters 2.5 Hospital ships 2.6 Tenders and tugs 3 Civilian auxiliary 3.1 Privateers 3.2 Privateer submersible torpedo boats 3.3 Civilian steamers 3.4 Civilian transports 3.5 Civilian blockade runners 3.6 Foreign blockade runners 4 CS Army 4.1 CSA cotton-clads 4.2 Other CSA boats 5 Other 5.1 Prizes 5.2 Undetermined 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 External links CSN Warships[edit] 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 bu ilding ironclad warships for coastal and national defense, and commerce raiding cruisers, supplemented with exploratory use of special weapons such as torpedo b oats and torpedoes. Batteries[edit] Based upon the successful employment of ironclad warships, particularly batterie s, at the Battle of Kinburn, Britain and France decided to focus on armor plated warships, starting with coastal battery designs. Initial ocean-going ironclad c ruisers, such as the French Gloire and the British HMS Warrior were only just em erging in 1859 and 1860, and were beyond the budget and timeline necessary for r apid 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 ironclad s from overseas, and in July and August started work on construction and convert ing wooden ships locally. On 12 October 1861, the Manassas became the first iron

clad to enter battle when she fought Union warships on the Mississippi. In Febru ary 1862, the even larger Virginia joined the Confederate Navy, having been buil t at Norfolk. The Confederacy built a number of ships designed as versions of th e Virginia, of which several saw action. In the failed attack on Charleston on A pril 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[edit] The CS Navy ironclad steamer batteries were all designed for national coastal de fense. CSS Albemarle, twin-screw steamer, ironclad, sunk: October 28, 1864 CSS Arkansas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: August 5, 1862 CSS Atlanta, triple-screw steamer, ironclad, captured: June 17, 1863 CSS Baltic, surrendered: May 10, 1865 CSS Charleston, steamer, ironclad, destroyed: February 18, 1865 CSS Chicora, steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: February 18, 1865 CSS Columbia, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: April 26, 1865 CSS Eastport, incomplete, captured: February 8, 1862 CSS Fredericksburg, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: April 4, 1865 CSS Georgia, ironclad steam battery, scuttled: December 21, 1864 CSS Huntsville, ironclad steam battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865 CSS Louisiana, twin screw and double center-wheel steamer, ironclad, destroyed: April 28, 1862 CSS Manassas, screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: April 24, 1862 CSS Milledgeville, steamer ironclad, burned/sunk: December 21, 1864 CSS Mississippi, 3-screw steamer, ironclad, burned: April 25, 1862 CSS Missouri, steam sloop, ironclad, surrendered: June 3, 1865 CSS Mobile, screw steamer, burned before launching: May 21, 1863 CSS Muscogee, twin-screw with center-wheel steamer, ironclad, burned: April 17, 1865 CSS Nashville, side-wheel steamer, ironclad, surrendered: May 10, 1865 CSS Neuse, twin-screw steamer, ironclad, destroyed: March 14, 1865 CSS New Orleans, floating steam battery, scuttled: April 7, 1862 CSS North Carolina, steamer, ironclad, accidentally sank: September 27, 1864 CSS Palmetto State, sloop, ironclad, destroyed: 18 February 1865 CSS Raleigh, sloop, ironclad, wrecked: May 7, 1864 CSS Richmond, screw steamer, ironclad, scuttled: April 3, 1865 CSS Savannah, steam sloop ironclad, burned: December 21, 1864 CSS Tennessee, ironclad ram, destroyed before launching: June 5, 1862 CSS Tennessee, single screw steamer, ironclad, captured: August 5, 1864 CSS Texas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, never completed, captured April 4, 1865 CSS Tuscaloosa, ironclad steam battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865 CSS Virginia, screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862 CSS Virginia II, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865 CSS Wilmington, twin-screw steamer, ironclad, destroyed before completion: Janua ry 1865 Ironclad floating batteries[edit] CS Navy ironclad floating batteries lacked steam engines for propulsion and were towed into firing positions. CSS Arctic, ironclad floating battery, burned: 1865 CSS Phoenix, ironclad floating battery, destroyed: 1865 Wooden floating batteries[edit] CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in th e case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense. Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor

CSS Memphis, floating battery Cruisers[edit] CS Navy cruisers were ocean-going ships designed primarily for the Confederate N avy's strategy of guerre de course. Confederate States Navy cruisers were typica lly lightly armed, with a couple of large guns or a pivot gun, and often very fa st. The Navy planned to add ironclad cruisers to their fleet, successfully procu ring one, but too late to be of benefit for the war. Wooden cruisers[edit] CSS Alabama, screw steamer, sloop-of-war, built in Birkenhead, England by John L aird Sons and Company, sunk: June 19, 1864 CSS Alexandra, screw steamer, bark-rigged, built in Liverpool, England, seized b efore 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 March 20, 1863 CSS Lapwing, bark, burned: June 20, 1863 CSS Nashville, side-wheel steamer, brig rigged, sold: 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 Gov ernment CSS Tuscaloosa, bark, seized: December 29, 1863 CSS United States, frigate, sail, harbor defense use only, scuttled Ironclad cruisers[edit] But the CS Navy attempts to procure ironclad cruisers from overseas were frustra ted as European nations confiscated ships being built for the Confederacy. Only the Stonewall was completed and successfully delivered, and she arrived in Ameri can 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, sold to Japan after ca pture by Union and renamed Japanese ironclad Kotetsu CSS Cheops, sister to Stonewall, built in France and sold to Prussia, October 29 , 1865, and named SMS Prinz Adalbert "Ironclad Frigate No. 61", arranged by Captain James H. North, CSN, sold to Denm ark, commissioned as Danmark Gunboats[edit] CSS Appomattox, tugboat, burned: February 10, 1862 CSS Bartow, schooner CSS Bayou City CSS Beaufort, screw steamer, burned: April 4, 1865 CSS Bienville, side-wheel steamer, destroyed: 1862 CSS Black Warrior, schooner, burned February 10, 1862 CSS Bombshell, steamer, captured: May 5, 1864 CSS Calhoun, side-wheel gunboat, captured: January 23, 1862 CSS Carondelet, side-wheel steamer, destroyed: 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

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Defiance, river steamer, destroyed: April 28, 1862 Diana, steamer, burned: April 12, 1863 Drewry, steamer, tender, destroyed: January 24, 1865 Ellis, steamer, tugboat, captured: February 10, 1862 Equator, steamer, burned: 1865 Fanny, screw steamer, iron hull, burned: February 10, 1862 Fashion, schooner Forrest, steamer, tugboat, burned: February 10, 1862 Fulton Gaines, side-wheel steamer General Quitman, steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862 General Polk, steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862 George Page, side-wheel river steamer, burned Germantown, sloop-of-war, burned Governor Moore, side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged, destroyed: April 23, 18 Hampton, screw steamer, burned: April 4, 1865 Harmony, steamer, tug Henry Dodge, cutter, schooner rigged Huntress, side-wheel steamer Isondiga, steamer, burned: December 21, 1864 Ivy, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863 J. A. Cotton, side-wheel river steamer, burned: January 1863 Jackson, side-wheel river steamer, tug, sunk Jamestown, side-wheel steamer, sunk: May, 1862 Junaluska, steamer, tug, dismantled: 1862 Kate Bruce, schooner, scuttled Lady Davis, steamer tug, iron, machinery mounted in CSS Palmetto Launch No. 3, steamer, captured: April, 1862 Launch No. 2, steamer, destroyed: April 24, 1862 Livingston, side-wheel steamer, destroyed: June 26, 1862 Macon, steamer Matilda, bark Maurepas, side-wheel steamer, sunk: June, 1862 McRae, screw steamer, sloop rigged, sunk: April 28, 1862 Morgan, side-wheel steamer, surrender: 1865 Morgan, cutter Morning Light, sail, burned: January 23, 1863 Nansemond, twin-screw gunboat, burned: April 3, 1865 Neptune, steamer, sunk: January 1, 1863 Nina, steamer Oregon, steamer, scuttled: Apr, 1862 Pamlico, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1862 Patrick Henry, side-wheel steamer, CSNA school ship, burned: April 4, 1865 Pedee, screw steamer, sunk: 1865 Pickens, cutter, schooner rigged Plymouth, sloop-of-war, burned: 1862 Polk, side-wheel river steamer, burned Pontchartrain, side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863 Raleigh, steamer Rappahannock, side-wheel steamer, burned: April, 1862 Rattlesnake, steamer, destroyed: February 28, 1863 Rescue, cutter, schooner rigged Resolute, burned: April 24, 1862 Roanoke, screw steamer, destroyed: April 4, 1865 Queen of the West, Sampson, side-wheel river steamer Savannah, steamer, foundered: August 18, 1863 Sea Bird, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: February 10, 1862 Selma, side-wheel steamer, captured: August 5, 1864

CSS Spray, steam tug, sunk CSS St. Mary, side-wheel river steamer, burned CSS Stono, burned: 1865 CSS Talomico, side-wheel steamer, sunk: 1863 CSS Teaser, tug, captured: 1862 CSS Tiger CSS Torpedo, screw steamer, tug/tender, iron, burned: April 4, 1865 CSS Tropic CSS Tuscarora, side-wheel steamer, burned CSS Velocity CSS Washington, schooner CSS Water Witch, side-wheel steamer, burned: December 19, 1864 CSS Winslow, side-wheel river steamer, wrecked CSS Yadkin, steamer, burned: 1865 Torpedo boats[edit] CSS David, semi-submersible torpedo boat CSS David, larger version of David, captured incomplete: February, 1865 CSS Midge, steam torpedo boat, captured: February, 1865 CSS Saint Patrick, semi-submersible torpedo boat CSS Squire CSS Squib, spar torpedo boat CSS Hornet, spar torpedo boat CSS Scorpion, spar torpedo boat CSS Wasp, spar torpedo boat CSN Support ships[edit] Government blockade runners[edit] CSS Advance, side-wheel steamer, captured: September 10, 1864 CSS Florida, screw steamer CSS Harriet Lane, side-wheel steamer CSS Kate Dale 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[edit] CSS Admiral, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 CSS Atlanta CSS Appomattox, screw steamer, burned: February 10, 1862 CSS Beaufort CSS Beauregard, side-wheel coastal steamer, captured: December, 1864 CSS Capitol, side-wheel river steamer burned: June 28, 1862 CSS Campion, 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 CSS Ohio Belle, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 CSS Patrick Henry CSS Prince, 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

CSS Tennessee, side-wheel steamer, captured: January, 1862 CSS Winchester, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 Government transports[edit] CSS Bombshell CSS City of Vicksburg, side-wheel steamer transport, damaged then destroyed: Feb ruary/March 1863 CSS Cotton Plant CSS Darlington CSS Mars, 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 CSS Yazoo, side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862 Cutters[edit] CSS Duane, revenue cutter, schooner rigged CSS Lewis Cass, revenue cutter, schooner rigged CSS Manassas, revenue cutter, schooner rigged, dismantled CSS Robert McClelland, revenue cutter, schooner rigged Hospital ships[edit] CSS Kanawha Valley, stern-wheel river steamer, burned: April 7, 1862 Tenders and tugs[edit] CSS Alert, lighthouse tender, schooner rigged CSS Beaufort, tugboat CSS Caswell, side-wheel steamer tender, burned CSS Firefly, side-wheel steamer tender, burned: December 21, 1864 CSS Indian Chief, receiving ship, burned CSS Resolute, side-wheel steamer, tugboat, captured: December 12, 1864 CSS Retribution, steam tugboat, sold: March 8, 1863 CSS Satellite, tugboat, destroyed: August, 1863 CSS Shrapnel, tender, burned: April 4, 1865 CSS St. Philip, receiving ship, sunk CSS Uncle Ben, steam tugboat, machinery mounted into CSS North Carolina II Civilian auxiliary[edit] Privateers[edit] A.C. Gunnison, privateer steam tug Beauregard, privateer cutter, schooner rigged, captured: November 12, 1861 Calhoun, privateer side-wheel steamer, burned: 1862 Dixie, privateer schooner, captured: April 15, 1862 Gibralter, privateer schooner Governor A. Mouton, privateer steamer, captured: May 11, 1862 Isabella, privateer screw steamer J. M. Chapman, privateer schooner, captured: March 15, 1863 J. O. Nixon, privateer schooner Jefferson Davis, privateer brig, ran aground: mid-August, 1861 Judah, privateer schooner, destroyed: September 14, 1861 Lorton, privateer schooner Mariner, privateer screw steamer Music, privateer steamer Sallie, privateer schooner Savannah, privateer schooner, captured: June 3, 1861 Sealine, privateer brig Theodora, privateer side-wheel steamer V. H. Ivy, privateer steamer York, privateer pilot boat, schooner rigged, burned: August 9, 1861 Privateer submersible torpedo boats[edit] Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine H. L. Hunley, hand-cranked, sunk: February 17, 1864 Pioneer Civilian steamers[edit] Dick Keys, captured: May 7, 1861

Lewis, captured: May 7, 1861 Swan, of Savannah Civilian transports[edit] Berwick Bay Era No. 5, shallow-draft steamer, captured: February 14, 1863 Civilian blockade runners[edit] Caroline, (aka USS Arizona) Bat, side-wheel steamship, captured: October 10, 1864 Colonel Lamb, side-wheel steamer Constance Decimer (aka Constance), side-wheel steamer Flamingo, side-wheel steamer Lelia, paddle-steamer Mary Bowers, side-wheel steamer Memphis, (later USS Memphis) Monticello, Cuban blockade runner Norseman Ruby, side-wheel steamer San Quintin, Cuban blockade runner Stonewall Jackson, (ex-Leopard), side-wheel steamer Foreign blockade runners[edit] Denbigh side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged CS Army[edit] CSA cotton-clads[edit] Used for river defense, CS Army cottonclads were typically more lightly armored and reinforced than a regular ironclad, such as the General Sterling Price, whic h was converted by placing a 4-inch oak sheath with a 1-inch iron covering on he r bow, and by installing double pine bulkheads filled with compressed cotton bal es. 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