page_title: List of ships of the Confederate States Navy
section_title: Ironclad steam powered batteries
hierarchical_section_title: List of ships of the Confederate States Navy / CSN Warships / Batteries / Ironclad steam powered batteries
context_page_description: This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy, 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.
context_section_description: The CS Navy ironclad steamer batteries were all designed for national coastal defense.
  CSS Albemarle, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: October 28, 1864
  CSS Arkansas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: August 5, 1862
  CSS Atlanta, triple-screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: June 17, 1863
  CSS Baltic, side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865
  CSS Charleston, ironclad steam sloop, 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, side-wheel steamer, ironclad gunboat, captured incomplete: February 8, 1862
  CSS Fredericksburg, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: April 4, 1865
  CSS Huntsville, ironclad steam floating 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 incomplete: December 21, 1864
  CSS Mississippi, triple-screw steamer, ironclad, burned: April 25, 1862
  CSS Missouri, center-wheel steam sloop, ironclad ram, surrendered: June 3, 1865
  CSS Mobile, screw steamer, ironclad, 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 ram, surrendered: May 10, 1865
  CSS Neuse, twin-screw steam sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: March 14, 1865
  CSS North Carolina, steam sloop, ironclad, accidentally sank: September 27, 1864
  CSS Palmetto State, sloop, ironclad ram, destroyed: 18 February 1865
  CSS Raleigh, steam sloop, ironclad, wrecked: May 7, 1864
  CSS Richmond, screw steamer, ironclad ram, scuttled: April 3, 1865
  CSS Savannah, steam sloop, ironclad, burned: December 21, 1864
  CSS Tennessee, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed before launching: June 5, 1862
  CSS Tennessee, single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: August 5, 1864
  CSS Texas, twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, never completed, captured: April 4, 1865
  CSS Tuscaloosa, ironclad steam floating battery, scuttled: April 12, 1865
  CSS Virginia, screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862
  CSS Virginia II, steam sloop, ironclad, destroyed: April 4, 1865
  CSS Wilmington, twin-screw steamer, ironclad gunboat, destroyed before completion: January 1865
caption: Ex-CSS USS Atlanta on the James River, photo by Mathew Brady
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