page_title: CSS Albemarle
section_title: Raising and later service
hierarchical_section_title: CSS Albemarle / Raising and later service
caption_attribution_description: CSS Albemarle {Not the CSS Lady Davis]
context_page_description: CSS Albemarle was a steam-powered ironclad gunboat ram of the Confederate Navy, named for a town and a sound in North Carolina. All three were named for General George Monck, the first Duke of Albemarle and one of the original Carolina Lords Proprietor.
context_section_description: After the fall of Plymouth, the U. S. Navy raised and temporarily hull-patched the Confederate ram. Near the end of the war, the Union gunboat USS Ceres towed Albemarle to the Norfolk Navy Yard, where she arrived on 27 April 1865. On 7 June orders were issued to repair her hull, and she entered dry dock soon thereafter. The work was completed on 14 August 1865. Two weeks later, the ironclad was judged condemned by a Washington, D.C. prize court.
  She saw no active naval service after being placed in ordinary at Norfolk, where she remained until she was finally sold at public auction on 15 October 1867 to J. N. Leonard and Company. She was probably scrapped for salvage. One of her 6.4-inch (160 mm) double-banded Brooke rifled cannon is on display at the Headquarters of the Commander U. S. Fleet Forces Command at the Norfolk, Virginia, naval base. Her smokestack is on display at the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
  Prize Court Adjudication
caption: CSS Albemarle. In Millers Photographic History of the Civil War Vol VI "The Navies" .p.87 this picture of the Albemarle" is misidentied as the CSS Lady Davis.
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