List of ships of the Confederate States Navy

This is a list of ships of the Confederate States Navy

Confederate States Navy

The Confederate States Navy was the naval branch of the Confederate States armed forces established by an act of the Confederate Congress on February 21, 1861. It was responsible for Confederate naval operations during the American Civil War...

(CSN), used by the Confederate States of America

Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...

during the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

between 1861 and 1865. Included are some types of civilian vessels, such as blockade runners, steamboats

Steamboat

A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...

, and privateers

Privateer

A privateer is a private person or ship authorized by a government by letters of marque to attack foreign shipping during wartime. Privateering was a way of mobilizing armed ships and sailors without having to spend public money or commit naval officers...

which contributed to the war efforts by the CSN. Also included are special types of floating batteries

Floating battery

A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries a heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship.An early appearance was during the Great Siege of Gibraltar....

and harbor defense craft.

CSN Warships

The Secretary of the CS Navy, Stephen Mallory

Stephen Mallory

Stephen Russell Mallory served in the United States Senate as, Senator from Florida from 1850 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs...

, 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

Battle of Kinburn (1855)

The Battle of Kinburn/Kil-Bouroun was a naval engagement during the final stage of the Crimean War. It took place on the tip of the Kinburn Peninsula on 17 October 1855...

, Britain and France decided to focus on armor plated warships, starting with coastal battery

Floating battery

designs. Initial ocean-going ironclad cruisers, such as the French battleship La Gloire

French battleship La Gloire

The French Navy's La Gloire was the first ocean-going ironclad battleship in history.She was developed following the Crimean War, in response to new developments in naval gun technology, especially the Paixhans guns and rifled guns, which used explosive shells with increased destructive power...

and the British battleship HMS Warrior

HMS Warrior (1860)

HMS Warrior was the first iron-hulled, armour-plated warship, built for the Royal Navy in response to the first ironclad warship, the French Gloire, launched a year earlier....

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

Ironclad warship

An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship in the early part of the second half of the 19th century, protected by iron or steel armor plates. The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells. The first ironclad battleship, La Gloire,...

from overseas, and in July and August started work on construction and converting wooden ships locally. On 12 October 1861, the CSS Manassas

CSS Manassas

CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts, by James O. Curtis in 1855. A New Orleans commission merchant, Captain John A...

became the first ironclad to enter battle when she fought Union warships on the Mississippi. In February 1862, the even larger CSS Virginia

CSS Virginia

CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, built during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the raised and cut down original lower hull and steam engines of the scuttled . Virginia was one of the...

joined the Confederate Navy, having been built at Norfolk. The Confederacy built a number of ships designed as versions of the CSS Virginia, of which several saw action. In the failed attack on Charleston

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...

on April 7, 1863 two small ironclads, CSS Palmetto State

CSS Palmetto State

CSS Palmetto State, an ironclad ram, was built by Cameron and Co., Charleston, South Carolina in January 1862, under the supervision of Flag Officer D. N. Ingraham, CSN. She was readied for service by September 1862 when Lieutenant Commander John Rutledge, CSN, was placed in command. Her armor was...

and CSS Chicora

CSS Chicora

CSS Chicora was a Confederate ironclad ram that fought in the American Civil War. She was built under contract at Charleston, South Carolina in 1862. James M. Eason built her to John L...

participated in the successful defense of the harbor. For the later attack at Mobile Bay

Battle of Mobile Bay

The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was an engagement of the American Civil War in which a Federal fleet commanded by Rear Adm. David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Adm...

, the Union faced the CSS Tennessee

CSS Tennessee (1863)

CSS Tennessee, an ironclad ram, was built at Selma, Alabama, where she was commissioned on February 16, 1864, Lieutenant James D. Johnston, CSN, in command. towed her to Mobile where she was fitted out for action....

, the Confederacy's most powerful ironclad.

Ironclad steam-powered batteries

The CS Navy ironclad steamer batteries were all designed for national coastal defense.

CSS Albemarle
CSS Albemarle
CSS Albemarle was an ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy , named for a town and a sound in North Carolina and a county in Virginia...

twin-screw steamer, ironclad, sunk: Oct 28, 1864
CSS Arkansas
CSS Arkansas
The CSS Arkansas was a Confederate Ironclad warship during the American Civil War. Serving in the Western Theater, the vessel ran through a U.S. Navy fleet at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 15 July 1862, in a celebrated action in which she inflicted more damage than she received...

twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: Aug 5, 1862
CSS Atlanta triple-screw steamer, ironclad, captured: Jun 17, 1863
CSS Baltic
CSS Baltic
The CSS Baltic was an iron and cottonclad sidewheeler ship built in 1860 in Philadelphia as a river tow boat belonging to the Southern Steamship Co. She was purchased by the State of Alabama, converted to an armored ram, and turned over to the Confederate States Navy in the middle of 1862. Her...

surrendered: May 10, 1865
CSS Charleston
CSS Charleston
The CSS Charleston was a Confederate Navy ironclad ram during the American Civil War. Construction at Charleston, South Carolina was authorized in fall 1862 and the ship was laid down in December 1862, entering service nine months later...

steamer, ironclad, destroyed: Feb 18, 1865
CSS Chicora
CSS Chicora
CSS Chicora was a Confederate ironclad ram that fought in the American Civil War. She was built under contract at Charleston, South Carolina in 1862. James M. Eason built her to John L...

steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: Feb 18, 1865
CSS Columbia
CSS Columbia
CSS Columbia was an ironclad ram in the Confederate States Navy and later in the United States Navy.-As CSS Columbia:Columbia was constructed under contract at Charleston, South Carolina in 1864, of yellow pine and white oak with iron fastenings and 6 inch iron plating. Hull work was done by F. M....

single screw steamer, ironclad ram, captured: Apr 26, 1865
CSS Eastport incomplete, captured: Feb 8, 1862
CSS Fredericksburg
CSS Fredericksburg
CSS Fredericksburg was an ironclad of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Fredericksburg was built at Richmond, Virginia in 1862-63. The CSS Fredericksburg was the second ironclad to be completed in Richmond. On November 30, 1863 she was reported completed and awaiting armament...

twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Georgia
CSS Georgia (battery)
CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad floating battery built at Savannah, Georgia in 1862–1863...

ironclad steam battery, scuttled: Dec 21, 1864
CSS Huntsville
CSS Huntsville
CSS Huntsville was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Selma, Alabama from 1862 to 1863.-Huntsville:Huntsville was ordered on May 1, 1862 by the Confederate States Navy. She was launched at the Confederate Naval Works at Selma on February 7, 1863 and finished in Mobile. She was...

ironclad steam battery, scuttled: Apr 12, 1865
CSS Louisiana
CSS Louisiana
CSS Louisiana was an ironclad ship of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She took part in one major action of the war, the Battle of Forts Jackson and St...

twin screw and double center-wheel steamer, ironclad, destroyed: Apr 28, 1862
CSS Manassas
CSS Manassas
CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts, by James O. Curtis in 1855. A New Orleans commission merchant, Captain John A...

screw steamer, ironclad ram, sunk: Apr 24, 1862
CSS Milledgeville steamer ironclad, burned/sunk: Dec 21, 1864
CSS Mississippi I
CSS Mississippi
CSS Mississippi was a projected ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, intended to be used on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans during the American Civil War. Her design was unusual, as she was built according to house-building techniques...

3-screw steamer, ironclad, burned: Apr 25, 1862
CSS Missouri
CSS Missouri
CSS Missouri was a Confederate States Navy casemate ironclad paddle steamer deployed on the Red River during the American Civil War. For most of the war she was trapped in the Shreveport, Louisiana area by low water on the Red River...

steam sloop, ironclad, surrendered: Jun 3, 1865
CSS Mobile screw steamer, burned before launching: May 21, 1863
CSS Muscogee
CSS Muscogee
CSS Muscogee also known as CSS Jackson was a Confederate States Navy ironclad ram, powered by a steam driven screw and deployed on the Chattahoochee River during the American Civil War....

twin-screw with center-wheel steamer, ironclad, burned: Apr 17, 1865
CSS Nashville
CSS Nashville (1864)
CSS Nashville was a large side-wheel steam ironclad built by the Confederates at Montgomery, Alabama intended to exploit the availability of riverboat engines. Launched in mid-1863, Nashville was taken to Mobile, Alabama for completion in 1864. Part of her armor came from the...

side-wheel steamer, ironclad, surrendered: May 10, 1865
CSS Neuse
CSS Neuse
The CSS Neuse was an ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. The remains of the ship can now be seen at an exhibit in Kinston, North Carolina as the CSS Neuse State Historic Site and Governor Caswell Memorial...

twin-screw steamer, ironclad, destroyed: Mar 14, 1865
CSS New Orleans
CSS New Orleans
CSS New Orleans was a floating battery fitted out at New Orleans, Louisiana in 1861. The craft featured two small boilers with pump connections for repelling boarders by drenching them with scalding water from her hoses. She was deployed under Lt. S. W. Averett, CSN, in the Mississippi River in...

floating steam battery, sunk
CSS North Carolina II
CSS North Carolina
CSS North Carolina, an ironclad gunboat, was built by Berry & Brothers at Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1863 at a cost of $76,000. The ship's bulkheads above the waterline were sloped inward and armored with railroad iron, similar to the CSS Virginia...

steamer, ironclad, accidentally sank: Sep 27, 1864
CSS Palmetto State
CSS Palmetto State
CSS Palmetto State, an ironclad ram, was built by Cameron and Co., Charleston, South Carolina in January 1862, under the supervision of Flag Officer D. N. Ingraham, CSN. She was readied for service by September 1862 when Lieutenant Commander John Rutledge, CSN, was placed in command. Her armor was...

sloop, ironclad, destroyed: 18 Feb 1865
CSS Raleigh
CSS Raleigh (1864)
CSS Raleigh, a casemate ironclad, was constructed by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1863-64, with Lieutenant John Wilkinson, CSN, commanding. She was reported in commission on April 30, 1864 under the command of Lieutenant J. Pembroke Jones, CSN.Built to Constructor...

sloop, ironclad, wrecked: May 7, 1864
CSS Richmond
CSS Richmond
CSS Richmond, an ironclad ram, was built at Gosport Navy Yard to the design of John L. Porter with money and scrap iron collected by the citizens of Virginia, whose imagination had been captured by the ironclad CSS Virginia. Consequently she was sometimes referred to as Virginia II, Virginia No. 2...

screw steamer, ironclad, scuttled: Apr 3, 1865
CSS Savannah
CSS Savannah (ironclad)
CSS Savannah was a Richmond-class casemate ironclad in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Savannah was built by H. F. Willink for the Confederacy at Savannah, Georgia in 1863. On June 30, 1863 she was transferred to naval forces in the Savannah River under the command of Flag...

steam sloop ironclad, burned: Dec 21, 1864
CSS Tennessee I
CSS Tennessee (1862)
The first CSS Tennessee was an ironclad ram, built for the Confederate States Navy.Tennessee was begun by John T. Shirley and Company, at Memphis, Tennessee, under fixed price contract for $76,920. Chief constructor of the twin-screw ironclad was a Mr...

ironclad ram, destroyed before launching: Jun 5, 1862
CSS Tennessee II
CSS Tennessee (1863)
CSS Tennessee, an ironclad ram, was built at Selma, Alabama, where she was commissioned on February 16, 1864, Lieutenant James D. Johnston, CSN, in command. towed her to Mobile where she was fitted out for action....

single screw steamer, ironclad, captured: Aug 5, 1864
CSS Texas
CSS Texas
The CSS Texas , was a twin propeller casement ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy, named for the state of Texas. She was sister ship to CSS Columbia...

twin-screw steamer, ironclad ram, never completed, captured Apr 4, 1865
CSS Tuscaloosa
CSS Tuscaloosa (ironclad)
CSS Tuscaloosa was a screw ironclad steamer ram in the Confederate States Navy that was laid down by the Confederate Naval Works at Selma in 1862.-History:...

ironclad steam battery, scuttled: Apr 12, 1865
CSS Virginia
CSS Virginia
CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, built during the first year of the American Civil War; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the raised and cut down original lower hull and steam engines of the scuttled . Virginia was one of the...

screw steamer, ironclad ram, destroyed: May 11, 1862
CSS Virginia II
CSS Virginia II
CSS Virginia II was a Confederate Navy steam-powered ironclad ram laid down in 1862 at the William Graves' shipyard in Richmond, Virginia. Acting Constructor William A. Graves, CSN, was the superintendent in charge of her building. In order to conserve scarce iron plating, he ordered the ship's...

ironclad, destroyed: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Wilmington twin-screw steamer, ironclad, destroyed before completion: Jan 1865

Ironclad floating batteries

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
CSS Phoenix
CSS Phoenix was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Selma, Alabama from 1863–64.-Huntsville:Phoenix was built at the Confederate Naval Works at Selma in 1863 and launched in March 1864. She was severely damaged during the launching and subsequently could not be used as a warship...

ironclad floating battery, destroyed: 1865

Wooden floating batteries

CS Navy wooden floating batteries were towed into firing positions, and as in the case at Charleston Harbor, used for makeshift defense.

Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor
Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor
The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was an ironclad vessel that was constructed by the Confederacy in early 1861, a few months before the American Civil War ignited...
CSS Memphis floating battery

Cruisers

CS Navy cruisers were ocean-going ships designed primarily for the Confederate Navy's strategy of guerre de course

Commerce raiding

Commerce raiding or guerre de course is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt the logistics of an enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging the combatants themselves or enforcing a blockade against them.Commerce raiding was heavily criticised by...

. 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
CSS Alabama
CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead, United Kingdom, in 1862 by John Laird Sons and Company. Alabama served as a commerce raider, attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, during which she never anchored in...

screw steamer, sloop-of-war, built in Birkenhead, England by John Laird Sons and Company, sunk: Jun 19, 1864
CSS Alexandra - screw steamer, bark-rigged, built in Liverpool, England, seized before delivery: April 5, 1863
America
America (yacht)
The America was a 19th century racing yacht that was the first to win the eponymous international sailing trophy now known as the America's Cup; in 1851 the trophy was known as the Royal Yacht Squadron's "One Hundred Guinea Cup", but was later renamed after the original winning yacht...

racing yacht, scuttled: 1862
CSS Archer
CSS Archer
CSS Archer was originally a fishing schooner captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS Tacony during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding....

schooner, captured: Jun 28, 1863
CSS Caleb Cushing revenue cutter, burned: Jun 28, 1863
CSS Chickamauga
CSS Chickamauga
CSS Chickamauga, originally the blockade runner Edith, was purchased by the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina in September 1864. In September, when she was nearly ready for sea, the Confederate Army sought unsuccessfully to retain her at that place for use as a troop and supply...

screw steamer, burned
CSS Clarence
CSS Clarence
CSS Clarence, also known as Coquette, was originally a brig from Baltimore captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS Florida during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding....

brig, burned: Jun 12, 1863
CSS Florida
CSS Florida (cruiser)
CSS Florida was a cruiser in the Confederate States Navy.Florida was built by the British firm of William C. Miller & Sons of Toxteth, Liverpool, and purchased by the Confederacy from Fawcett, Preston & Co., also of Liverpool, who engined her...

screw steamer, sloop, captured: Oct 7, 1864
CSS Georgia
CSS Georgia (cruiser)
CSS Georgia was built in 1862 as the fast merchantman Japan. The Confederate States Government purchased her at Dumbarton, Scotland, in March 1863. On April 1, she departed Greenock, reputedly bound for the East Indies and carrying a crew of fifty who had shipped for a voyage to Singapore...

screw steamer, iron, sold: Jun 1, 1864
CSS Georgiana steamer, destroyed: after Mar 20, 1863
CSS Lapwing bark, burned: Jun 20, 1863
CSS Nashville
CSS Nashville (1861)
Originally a United States Mail Service ship, the USMS Nashville, was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1853. Between 1853 and 1861 she was engaged in running between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina...

side-wheel steamer, brig rigged, sold: 1862
CSS Rappahannock
CSS Rappahannock
CSS Rappahannock, a steam sloop-of-war, was built on the River Thames in 1855 as an Intrepid-class gunvessel for the Royal Navy and named HMS Victor. Although a handsomely modelled vessel, numerous defects occasioned her sale in 1863...

screw steamer, sloop-of-war, turned over at war's end
CSS Shenandoah
CSS Shenandoah
CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full rigged ship, with auxiliary steam power, captained by Commander James Waddell, Confederate States Navy, a North Carolinian with twenty years' service in the United States Navy.During 12½ months of 1864–1865 the ship...

screw steamer, full rigged, iron-framed, turned over to British Government
CSS Sumter
CSS Sumter
CSS Sumter, a 473-ton bark-rigged screw steam cruiser, was built as the merchant steamship Habana at Philadelphia in 1859 for McConnell's New Orleans & Havana Line. Purchased by the Confederate Government at New Orleans in April 1861, she was converted to a cruiser and placed under the command of...

screw steamer, sloop, sold: Dec 19, 1862
CSS Tacony
CSS Tacony
CSS Tacony was originally a bark captured by the Confederate cruiser CSS Clarence during the American Civil War and converted into a Confederate cruiser for commerce raiding.The CSS Clarence, commanded by Lt. Charles W...

bark, burned: Jun 25, 1863
CSS Tallahassee
CSS Tallahassee
The CSS Tallahassee was a twin-screw steamer and cruiser in the Confederate States Navy, purchased in 1864, and used for commerce raiding off the Atlantic coast.-History:...

twin-screw steamer, sloop, seized: Apr 9, 1865 by British Government
CSS Tuscaloosa bark, seized: Dec 29, 1863
CSS United States
USS United States (1797)
USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794...

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 CSS 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 Oct 1863 and commissioned as HMS Scorpion
HMS Scorpion (1863)
HMS Scorpion, an ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, was one of two sister ships that the Confederate States of America secretly ordered from the Laird shipyard in 1862. To conceal her true ownership, all concerned endorsed the fiction that she was being constructed as the Egyptian...
CSS Mississippi II - seized Oct 1863 and commissioned as HMS Wivern
HMS Wivern (1863)
HMS Wivern was an ironclad turret ship built at Birkenhead, England, one of two sister ships secretly ordered from the Laird & Son shipyard by the Confederate States of America in 1862. Her true ownership was concealed by the fiction that she was being constructed as the Egyptian warship El Monassir...
CSS Stonewall twin-screw steamer, brig rigged, ironclad, sold to Japan after capture by Union and renamed Kōtetsu
Cheops - sister to CSS Stonewall, built in France and sold to Prussia Oct 29, 1865 and named SMS Prinz Adalbert
SMS Prinz Adalbert (1865)
SMS Prinz Adalbert was an ironclad warship of the Prussian Navy, originally ordered by the Confederate States Navy. Prussia purchased the ship during the Second Schleswig War against Denmark, though the vessel was not delivered until after the war. The vessel was designed as an armored ram, but...
Ironclad Frigate No. 61, arranged by Captain James H. North, CSN, sold to Denmark, commissioned as HDMS Danmark
Danmark (armoured frigate)
Danmark was an armored frigate of the Royal Danish Navy originally ordered by the Confederate States Navy.The origins of the Danmark lie in efforts of the Confederate States of America to purchase warships in Europe, which is to say in the United Kingdom and France, during the American Civil War...

Gunboats

CSS Appomattox
CSS Appomattox
CSS Appomattox was a small propellor-driven steamer used early in the war by the Confederate Navy to defend the sounds of northeastern North Carolina...

tugboat, burned: Feb 10, 1862
CSS Bartwo schooner
CSS Bayou City
CSS Beaufort
CSS Beaufort
The CSS Beaufort was an iron hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the Civil War.The Beaufort was originally called the Caledonia. She was built at the Pusey & Jones Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1854. The Caledonia operated out of Edenton, North Carolina. In 1856...

screw steamer, burned: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Bienville side-wheel steamer, destroyed: 1862
CSS Black Warrior schooner, burned Feb 10, 1862
CSS Bombshell
CSS Bombshell
CSS Bombshell — believed to have been an Erie Canal steamer — was a U.S. Army transport. Bombshell was sunk by the Confederate batteries in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina on April 18, 1864. She was raised by the Confederate forces and taken into the Confederate States Navy under the...

steamer, captured: May 5, 1864
CSS Calhoun side-wheel gunboat, captured: Jan 23, 1862
CSS Carondelet side-wheel steamer, destroyed: 1862
CSS Chattahoochee
CSS Chattahoochee
CSS Chattahoochee was a twin-screw steam gunboat built at Saffold, Georgia, entered service in February 1863 for the Confederate States and was named after the river it was built on.- Career :...

twin-screw steamer, scuttled: Dec, 1864
CSS Clifton
USS Clifton (1861)
USS Clifton was a light-draft side-wheel gunboat in the United States Navy.Clifton was built in 1861 at Brooklyn, New York, as a civilian ferryboat. She was purchased by the Navy in early December of that year and placed in commission after conversion for combat service.-US Navy Service:Clifton...

side-wheel gunboat, Texas Marine Department, scuttled March 1864
CSS Curlew
CSS Curlew
CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground at Fort Forrest and burned in the battle for Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862...

side-wheel river steamer, sunk: Feb 7, 1862
CSS De Soto side-wheel steamer, captured: Sep 30, 1862
CSS Defiance river steamer, destroyed: Apr 28, 1862
CSS Diana steamer, burned: Apr 12, 1863
CSS Drewry
CSS Drewry
CSS Drewry was a wooden gunboat with foredeck protected by an iron V-shaped shield. Classed as a tender, she was attached to Flag Officer French Forrest's James River Squadron sometime in 1863 with Master Lewis Parrish, CSN, in command....

steamer, tender, destroyed: Jan 24, 1865
CSS Ellis
CSS Ellis
CSS Ellis was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was lost during a raid while under command of famed Navy officer Lieutenant William B...

steamer, tugboat, captured: Feb 10, 1862
CSS Equator steamer, burned: 1865
CSS Fanny
CSS Fanny
CSS Fanny was a small propellor-driven steamer used by the Confederate Navy to defend the sounds of northeastern North Carolina. Originally operated by the Union, she was captured early in the war by the Confederate Navy, and later lost at the battle for Elizabeth City...

screw steamer, iron hull, burned: Feb 10, 1862
CSS Fashion schooner
CSS Forrest
CSS Forrest
The CSS Forrest was a wood hull Confederate gunboat that saw action in the North Carolina sounds in 1861 to 1862. Despite being considered "worn out", she saw continuous service until destroyed after the Battle for Elizabeth City in February 1862....

steamer, tugboat, burned: Feb 10, 1862
CSS Fulton
CSS Gaines
CSS Gaines
CSS Gaines was a wooden side wheel gunboat constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama during 1861-62. The ship was hastily built with unseasoned wood, which was partially covered with 2-inch iron plating. Gaines resembled CSS Morgan except that she had high pressure boilers. Operating in...

side-wheel steamer
CSS General Quitman steamer, destroyed: Apr 24, 1862
CSS General Polk
CSS General Polk
The CSS General Polk was a vessel of the Confederate navy during the American Civil War. Originally a side-wheel river steamer built in 1852 named either Ed Howard or merely Howard, she was purchased for $8,000 by the Confederacy in 1861 and outfitted for service as a timberclad river gunboat....

steamer, destroyed: Jun 26, 1862
CSS George Page
CSS George Page
CSS George Page, a 410-ton sidewheel steamship, was originally built as a transport at Washington, D.C. in 1853.She was attached to the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army, until captured by the Confederates at nearby Aquia Creek, Virginia in May 1861, when she became a part of the...

side-wheel river steamer, burned
CSS Germantown sloop-of-war, burned
CSS Governor Moore
CSS Governor Moore
LSNS Governor Moore was a schooner-rigged steamer in the Confederate States Navy.Governor Moore had been Southern S. S. Company's Charles Morgan, named for the firm's founder and built at New York in 1854 as a schooner-rigged, low pressure, walking beam-engined, seagoing steamer...

side-wheel steamer, schooner rigged, destroyed: Apr 23, 1862
CSS Hampton
CSS Hampton
CSS Hampton was a wooden gunboat of the Confederate States Navy, one of the few Hampton class gunboats to be built.Hampton was built at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1862 and based there until May 1862, when the yard was abandoned and the fleet moved up the James River...

screw steamer, burned: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Harmony steamer, tug
CSS Henry Dodge cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Huntress side-wheel steamer
CSS Isondiga
CSS Isondiga
CSS Isondiga was a small wooden gunboat without masts that served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Isondiga operated in waters around Savannah, Georgia, and in Saint Augustine Creek, Florida, from April 1863 to December 1864, Lieutenant Joel S. Kennard commanding...

steamer, burned: Dec 21, 1864
CSS Ivy
CSS Ivy
CSS Ivy was a sidewheel steamer and privateer purchased by Commodore Lawrence Rousseau for service with the Confederate Navy, and chosen by Commodore George Hollins for his Mosquito Fleet...

side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863
CSS J. A. Cotton side-wheel river steamer, burned: Jan 1863
CSS Jackson
CSS Jackson
CSS Jackson was a gunboat of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.Built at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849 as Yankee, the fast side-wheel river tug was purchased at New Orleans on 9 May 1861 by Capt. L. Rousseau, CSN, then strengthened and fitted for service in the Confederate Navy, and...

side-wheel river steamer, tug, sunk
CSS Jamestown
CSS Jamestown
CSS Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Commonwealth of Virginia Navy...

side-wheel steamer, sunk: May, 1862
CSS Junaluska steamer, tug, dismantled: 1862
CSS Kate Bruce schooner, scuttled
CSS Lady Davis
CSS Lady Davis
CSS Lady Davis was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Originally the Richmond iron steam tug James Gray, built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1858, Lady Davis was purchased in March 1861 by Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens of South Carolina, who armed her and...

, steamer tug, iron, machinery mounted in CSS Palmetto
CSS "Launch No. 3 steamer, captured: Apr, 1862

CSS "Launch No. 6 steamer, destroyed: Apr 24, 1862
CSS Livingston side-wheel steamer, destroyed: Jun 26, 1862
CSS Macon steamer
CSS Matilda bark
CSS Maurepas side-wheel steamer, sunk: June, 1862
CSS McRae
CSS McRae
The CSS McRae was a Confederate gunboat that saw service during the American Civil War. Displacing around 680 tons, she was armed with one 9-inch smoothbore and six 32-pound smoothbore cannon....

screw steamer, sloop rigged, sunk: Apr 28, 1862
CSS Morgan
CSS Morgan
CSS Morgan was a partially armored gunboat of the Confederate States Navy in the American Civil War.Morgan was built at Mobile, Alabama in 1861-62. She operated in the waters around Mobile from the time of her completion early in 1862 to the close of hostilities. One reference of October 1862 gave...

side-wheel steamer, surrender: 1865
CSS Morgan cutter
CSS Morning Light sail, burned: Jan 23, 1863
CSS Nansemond twin-screw gunboat, burned: Apr 3, 1865
CSS Neptune steamer, sunk: Jan 1, 1863
CSS Nina steamer
CSS Oregon
CSS Oregon
CSS Oregon, a wooden steam gunboat was the only ship of the Confederate States Navy to be named for the 33rd state. A wooden steamer similar to California, she was built at New York City in 1846 for the Mobile Mail Line, 60 percent owned at the end of April 1861 by the Geddes family of New...

steamer, scuttled: Apr, 1862
CSS Pamlico side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1862
CSS Patrick Henry
CSS Patrick Henry
CSS Patrick Henry was built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer Yorktown, a brigantine-rigged side-wheel steamer. She carried passengers and freight between Richmond, Virginia and New York City...

side-wheel steamer, CSNA school ship, burned: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Pedee
CSS Pedee
The CSS Pedee, also known as the CSS Pee Dee was a Confederate gunboat launched in January 1865 and scuttled the following month during the American Civil War....

screw steamer, sunk: 1865
CSS Pickens cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Plymouth sloop-of-war, burned: 1862
CSS Polk side-wheel river steamer, burned
CSS Pontchartrain side-wheel river steamer, burned: 1863
CSS Raleigh
CSS Raleigh (1861)
CSS Raleigh was originally a small, iron-hulled, propeller-driven towing steamer operating on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. She was taken over by the State of North Carolina in May 1861, and transferred to the Confederate States the following July. Her commanding officer during 1861-1862 was...

steamer
CSS Rappahannock
CSS Rappahannock
CSS Rappahannock, a steam sloop-of-war, was built on the River Thames in 1855 as an Intrepid-class gunvessel for the Royal Navy and named HMS Victor. Although a handsomely modelled vessel, numerous defects occasioned her sale in 1863...

side-wheel steamer, burned: Apr, 1862
CSS Rattlesnake steamer, destroyed: Feb 28, 1863
CSS Rescue cutter, schooner rigged
CSS Resolute
CSS Resolute
CSS Resolute was a tugboat built in 1858 at Savannah Georgia as the Ajax which served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War....

burned: Apr 24, 1862
CSS Roanoke screw steamer, destroyed: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Queen of the West
CSS Sampson side-wheel river steamer
CSS Savannah
CSS Savannah (gunboat)
CSS Savannah, later called Old Savannah, was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Savannah was formerly the steamer Everglade, built in 1856 at New York City. She was purchased early in 1861 by the State of Georgia and converted into a gunboat for coast defense...

steamer, foundered: Aug 18, 1863
CSS Sea Bird
CSS Sea Bird
CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy.Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina at Norfolk, Virginia in 1861 and fitted for service with the Confederate States Navy. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina...

side-wheel river steamer, sunk: Feb 10, 1862
CSS Selma
CSS Selma
CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Selma was a coastwise packet built at Mobile, Alabama for the Mobile Mail Line in 1856. Little doubt now remains that she was originally named Florida...

side-wheel steamer, captured: Aug 5, 1864
CSS Spray
CSS Spray
The CSS Spray was a steam-powered, side-paddle wheel tugboat built in New Albany, Indiana originally fitted as a mercantile ship before becoming a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and used in the St. Marks, Newport, Florida area....

steam tug, sunk
CSS St. Mary side-wheel river steamer, burned
CSS Stono burned: 1865
CSS Talomico side-wheel steamer, sunk: 1863
CSS Teaser
CSS Teaser
CSS Teaser had been the aging Georgetown, D.C. tugboat York River until the beginning of the American Civil War, when she was taken into the Confederate States Navy. Later, she was captured by the United States Navy and became the first USS Teaser.-CSS Teaser:Teaser was built at Philadelphia,...

tug, captured: 1862
CSS Tiger
CSS Torpedo screw steamer, tug/tender, iron, burned: Apr 4, 1865
CSS Tropic
CSS Tuscarora side-wheel steamer, burned
CSS Velocity
CSS Washington schooner
CSS Water Witch
USS Water Witch (1851)
The third USS Water Witch was a wooden-hulled, sidewheel gunboat in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She is best known as the ship fired on by Paraguay in 1855...

side-wheel steamer, burned: Dec 19, 1864
CSS Winslow side-wheel river steamer, wrecked
CSS Yadkin steamer, burned: 1865

Torpedo boats

CSS David
CSS David
CSS David was a Civil War-era torpedo boat built as a private venture by T. Stoney at Charleston, South Carolina in 1863, and put under the control of the Confederate States Navy. The cigar-shaped boat carried a 60- or 70-pound explosive charge on the end of a spar projecting forward from her bow...
CSS David II - larger version of David, captured incomplete: Feb, 1865
CSS Midge steam torpedo boat, captured: Feb, 1865
CSS Saint Patrick semi-submersible torpedo boat
CSS Squire
CSS Squib spar torpedo boat
CSS Hornet spar torpedo boat
CSS Scorpion
CSS Scorpion
CSS Scorpion was a Squib-class torpedo boat procured late in 1864 by the Confederate States Navy and armed with a spar torpedo fitted to her stem. She performed picket duty in the James River under command of Lieutenant E. Lakin, CSN....

spar torpedo boat
CSS Wasp spar torpedo boat

Government blockade runners

CSS Advance side-wheel steamer, captured: September 10, 1864
CSS Florida
CSS Florida (blockade runner)
The Confederate blockade runner CSS Florida, built at Greenpoint, New York in 1859, was thrice considered for a gunboat before she became one...

screw steamer
CSS Harriet Lane side-wheel steamer
CSS Kate Dale
CSS Lady Stirling
USS Hornet (1865)
The USS Hornet was the fifth United States Navy ship to bear the name Hornet. She was originally the Confederate blockade runner CSS Lady Stirling, built by James Ash at Cubitt Town, London in 1864...

side-wheel steamer, captured: Oct 28, 1864
CSS Owl
CSS Owl
CSS Owl was a blockade runner in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. It was built by Jones Quiggen, a ship builder in Liverpool, England and launched on June 21, 1864....
CSS Rob Roy
CSS Rob Roy
The CSS Rob Roy was a Confederate blockade runner which, commanded by Captain William Watson, ran to and from Bermuda, the Bahamas and Cuba from 1862 to 1864, during the American Civil War....
CSS Robert E. Lee
CSS Robert E. Lee
CSS Robert E. Lee was a blockade runner for the Confederate States during the American Civil War that later served in the United States Navy as USS Fort Donelson and in the Chilean Navy as Concepción.-CSS Robert E. Lee:Robert E...
CSS William G. Hewes
USS Malvern (1860)
USS Malvern was a large steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was then used by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.Malvern was built in 1860 as William G...

(later SS Ella and Annie), captured: Nov 9, 1863

Government steamers

CSS Admiral side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Atlanta
USS Atlanta (1861)
The first Atlanta was a casemate southern ironclad, converted from a Scottish-built blockade runner serving in the Confederate Navy. She was later captured in battle and then served in the Union Navy for the duration of the Civil War....
CSS Appomattox
CSS Appomattox
CSS Appomattox was a small propellor-driven steamer used early in the war by the Confederate Navy to defend the sounds of northeastern North Carolina...

screw steamer, burned: Feb 10, 1862
CSS Beaufort
CSS Beaufort
The CSS Beaufort was an iron hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the Civil War.The Beaufort was originally called the Caledonia. She was built at the Pusey & Jones Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1854. The Caledonia operated out of Edenton, North Carolina. In 1856...
CSS Beauregard side-wheel coastal steamer, captured: Dec, 1864
CSS Capitol side-wheel river steamer burned: Jun 28, 1862
CSS Champion side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Curlew
CSS Curlew
CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground at Fort Forrest and burned in the battle for Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862...
CSS Ellis
CSS Ellis
CSS Ellis was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was lost during a raid while under command of famed Navy officer Lieutenant William B...
CSS Fanny
CSS Fanny
CSS Fanny was a small propellor-driven steamer used by the Confederate Navy to defend the sounds of northeastern North Carolina. Originally operated by the Union, she was captured early in the war by the Confederate Navy, and later lost at the battle for Elizabeth City...
CSS George Page
CSS George Page
CSS George Page, a 410-ton sidewheel steamship, was originally built as a transport at Washington, D.C. in 1853.She was attached to the Quartermaster's Department of the United States Army, until captured by the Confederates at nearby Aquia Creek, Virginia in May 1861, when she became a part of the...
CSS Governor Moore
CSS Governor Moore
LSNS Governor Moore was a schooner-rigged steamer in the Confederate States Navy.Governor Moore had been Southern S. S. Company's Charles Morgan, named for the firm's founder and built at New York in 1854 as a schooner-rigged, low pressure, walking beam-engined, seagoing steamer...
CSS Grampus
CSS Grampus
CSS Grampus was a stern-wheel river steamer built in 1856 at McKeesport, Pennsylvania, for civilian employment. Taken by the Confederate Army in early 1862, she served as a scout boat and transport on the Mississippi River. Late in March 1862, Captain Marsh Miller in command, she took an active...

stern-wheel river steamer, scuttled: Apr 7, 1862
CSS Grand Duke
CSS Grand Duke
CSS Grand Duke, a steamer built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1859, was outfitted as a cotton-clad gunboat for service with the Confederate States Army in February 1863....
CSS Ida side-wheel coastal steamer, captured/burned: Dec 10, 1864
CSS Jamestown
CSS Jamestown
CSS Jamestown, originally a side-wheel, passenger steamer, was built at New York City in 1853, and seized at Richmond, Virginia in 1861 for the Commonwealth of Virginia Navy...
CSS Nashville
CSS Nashville (1861)
Originally a United States Mail Service ship, the USMS Nashville, was a brig-rigged, side-paddle-wheel passenger steamer built at Greenpoint, Brooklyn in 1853. Between 1853 and 1861 she was engaged in running between New York City and Charleston, South Carolina...

- 1861
CSS Ohio Belle side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Patrick Henry
CSS Patrick Henry
CSS Patrick Henry was built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer Yorktown, a brigantine-rigged side-wheel steamer. She carried passengers and freight between Richmond, Virginia and New York City...
CSS Prince side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862
CSS Raleigh
CSS Raleigh (1861)
CSS Raleigh was originally a small, iron-hulled, propeller-driven towing steamer operating on the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal. She was taken over by the State of North Carolina in May 1861, and transferred to the Confederate States the following July. Her commanding officer during 1861-1862 was...

- 1861
CSS Red Rover side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS Sea Bird
CSS Sea Bird
CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy.Sea Bird was built at Keyport, New Jersey in 1854, was purchased by North Carolina at Norfolk, Virginia in 1861 and fitted for service with the Confederate States Navy. She was assigned to duty along the Virginia and North Carolina...
CSS Selman
CSS Selma
CSS Selma was a steamship in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War.Selma was a coastwise packet built at Mobile, Alabama for the Mobile Mail Line in 1856. Little doubt now remains that she was originally named Florida...
CSS Tennessee side-wheel steamer, captured: January, 1862
CSS Winchester side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862

Government transports

CSS Bombshell
CSS Bombshell
CSS Bombshell — believed to have been an Erie Canal steamer — was a U.S. Army transport. Bombshell was sunk by the Confederate batteries in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina on April 18, 1864. She was raised by the Confederate forces and taken into the Confederate States Navy under the...
CSS City of Vicksburg - side-wheel steamer transport, damaged then destroyed: Feb/Mar 1863
CSS Cotton Plant
CSS Cotton Plant
CSS Cotton Plant, sometimes referred to as Cotton Planter, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1860 and reportedly carried troops in the Pamlico River as early as September 1861...
CSS Darlington
CSS Mars side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862
CSS The Planter side-wheel steamer, captured by its slave pilot, 13 May 1862
CSS Sumter
CSS Sumter
CSS Sumter, a 473-ton bark-rigged screw steam cruiser, was built as the merchant steamship Habana at Philadelphia in 1859 for McConnell's New Orleans & Havana Line. Purchased by the Confederate Government at New Orleans in April 1861, she was converted to a cruiser and placed under the command of...
CSS Yazoo side-wheel river steamer, sunk: April 7, 1862

Cutters

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

CSS Kanawha Valley stern-wheel river steamer, burned: April 7, 1862

Tenders and tugs

CSS Alert lighthouse tender, schooner rigged
CSS Beaufort
CSS Beaufort
The CSS Beaufort was an iron hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the Civil War.The Beaufort was originally called the Caledonia. She was built at the Pusey & Jones Company of Wilmington, Delaware in 1854. The Caledonia operated out of Edenton, North Carolina. In 1856...

tugboat
CSS Caswell side-wheel steamer tender, burned
CSS Firefly side-wheel steamer tender, burned: Dec 21, 1864
CSS Indian Chief receiving ship, burned
CSS Resolute
CSS Resolute
CSS Resolute was a tugboat built in 1858 at Savannah Georgia as the Ajax which served in the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War....

side-wheel steamer, tugboat, captured: Dec 12, 1864
CSS Retribution steam tugboat, sold: Mar 8, 1863
CSS Satellite tugboat, destroyed: August, 1863
CSS Shrapnel tender, burned: Apr 4, 1865
CSS St. Philip receiving ship, sunk
CSS Uncle Ben steam tugboat, machinery mounted into CSS North Carolina II

Privateers

A.C. Gunnison privateer steam tug
Beauregard privateer cutter, schooner rigged, sunk: Jul 28, 1861
Calhoun privateer side-wheel steamer, burned: 1862
Dixie privateer schooner, captured: Apr 15, 1862
Gibralter privateer schooner
Governor A. Mouton privateer steamer, captured: May 11, 1862
Isabella privateer screw steamer
J. M. Chapman
J. M. Chapman (privateer)
J. M. Chapman, 90 Ton schooner, was purchased by in 1863, by Asbury Harpending and other California members of the Knights of the Golden Circle in San Francisco to outfit as a Confederate privateer....

privateer schooner, captured: March 15, 1863
J. O. Nixon privateer schooner
Jefferson Davis privateer brig, ran aground: mid-August, 1861
Judah privateer schooner, destroyed: Sep 14, 1861
Lorton privateer schooner
Mariner privateer screw steamer
Music privateer steamer
Sallie privateer schooner
Savannah privateer schooner, captured: Jun 3, 1861
Sealine privateer brig
Theodora privateer side-wheel steamer
V. H. Ivy privateer steamer
York privateer pilot boat, schooner rigged, burned: Aug 9, 1861

Privateer submersible torpedo boats

Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine
Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine
The Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine is an early military submarine built for use by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.-Description:...
H. L. Hunley
H. L. Hunley (submarine)
H. L. Hunley was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part in the American Civil War, but a large role in the history of naval warfare. The Hunley demonstrated both the advantages and the dangers of undersea warfare...

hand-cranked, sunk: Feb 17, 1864
Pioneer
Pioneer (submarine)
Pioneer was the first of three submarines privately developed and paid for by Horace Lawson Hunley, James McClintock and Baxter Watson.Hunley, McClintock and Watson built Pioneer in New Orleans, Louisiana...

Civilian steamers

SS Dick Keys captured: May 7, 1861
SS Lewis captured: May 7, 1861
SS Swan of Savannah

Civilian transports

Berwick Bay
Berwick Bay (ship)
Berwick Bay was a steamer engaged in transporting supplies for the Confederates in the Mississippi River area. She was captured and destroyed on 3 February 1863 by Ellet's Ram Fleet as she came out of the Red River heavily laden with supplies for Port Hudson, Louisiana. She displaced 64 tons and...
Era No. 5 - shallow-draft steamer, captured: Feb 14, 1863

Civilian blockade runners

Caroline
USS Arizona (1858)
The first USS Arizona was an iron hulled side-wheel steamer in the United States Navy.-USS Arizona:USS Arizona was an iron-hulled, side-wheel merchant steamship laid down in 1858 at the shipyard of Harlan and Hollingsworth in Wilmington, Delaware, and completed in 1859...

(a.k.a. USS Arizona)
SS Bat side-wheel steamship, captured: Oct 10, 1864
SW Colonel Lamb side-wheel steamer
SW Constance Decimer(a.k.a. Constance)
SW Flamingo
PS Lelia
Lelia
PS Lelia was a steamship built during the American Civil War for use as a blockade runner for the Confederate States of America. She sank in Liverpool Bay in 1865 in an incident which caused 46 fatalities....
SW Mary Bowers
Memphis
USS Memphis (1862)
The second USS Memphis was a 7‑gun screw steamer, built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1861, which briefly served as a Confederate blockade runner before being captured and taken into the Union Navy during the American Civil War....

(later USS Memphis)
Monticello
Monticello (privateer)
The Monticello was a Confederate blockade runner during the American Civil War. She was a two-masted schooner out of Havana, Cuba and of unknown nationality. She ran ashore about 6 to 8 miles east of Fort Morgan and the main inlet to Mobile Bay in Alabama on June 26, 1862, after sailing from...

, Cuban blockade runner
SS Norseman
SW Ruby
San Quintin, Cuban blockade runner
SW Stonewall Jackson (ex-SW Leopard)

CSA cotton-clads

Used for river defense, CS Army cottonclads

Cotton-clad

Cottonclads were a classification of steam-powered warships where a wooden ship was protected from enemy fire by bales of cotton lining its sides. This provided some protection from enemy fire, but not to the extent of ironclads...

were typically more lightly armored and reinforced than a regular ironclad, such as the CSS General Sterling Price

Laurent Millaudon

Laurent Millaudon was a wooden side-wheel river steamboat launched at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 operating in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, and captained by W.S. Whann. At the beginning of the American Civil War she was taken into service by the Confederate Navy as CSS General Sterling Price. On...

, 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

Naval ram

A naval ram was a weapon carried by varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon consisted of an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak, usually between six and twelve feet in length...

.

River Defense Fleet

River Defense Fleet

The River Defense Fleet was a set of fourteen vessels in Confederate service, intended to assist in the defense of New Orleans in the early days of the American Civil War...

cotton-clads:

CSS Colonel Lovell
CSS Colonel Lovell
CSS Colonel Lovell was a cotton-clad ram of the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War-Service history:The ship was built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1843, as Hercules, and was owned by the Ocean Towing Co. of New Orleans...

side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: Jun 6, 1862
CSS General Beauregard
CSS General Beauregard
CSS General Beauregard was a cotton-clad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.Built in Algiers, Louisiana in 1847 as a towboat, the paddle steamer Ocean was selected in January 1862 by Capt. James E. Montgomery, former river steamboat master, for his River Defense...

steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: Jun 6, 1862
CSS General Bragg steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: Jun 6, 1862
CSS Breckinridge stern-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: Apr, 1862
CSS Defiance side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: 1862
CSS General Earl Van Dorn
CSS General Earl Van Dorn
The CSS General Earl Van Dorn, a side-wheel river steamer, was fitted out in early 1862 at New Orleans, Louisiana as a River Defense Fleet "cottonclad" ram....

steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned
CSS General M. Jeff Thompson
CSS General M. Jeff Thompson
CSS General M. Jeff Thompson was a cotton-clad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.The ship was selected in January 1862 by Captain James E. Montgomery to be part of his River Defense Fleet. At New Orleans on 25 January, Capt...

steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: June 6, 1862
CSS General Sterling Price
Laurent Millaudon
Laurent Millaudon was a wooden side-wheel river steamboat launched at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1856 operating in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, and captained by W.S. Whann. At the beginning of the American Civil War she was taken into service by the Confederate Navy as CSS General Sterling Price. On...

steamer, cotton-clad ram, sunk: Jun 6, 1862
CSS General Sumter steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: Jun 6, 1862
CSS Governor Moore
CSS Governor Moore
LSNS Governor Moore was a schooner-rigged steamer in the Confederate States Navy.Governor Moore had been Southern S. S. Company's Charles Morgan, named for the firm's founder and built at New York in 1854 as a schooner-rigged, low pressure, walking beam-engined, seagoing steamer...

steamer, schooner rigged, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: Apr 24, 1862
CSS Little Rebel steamer, cotton-clad ram, captured: Jun 6, 1862
CSS Resolute side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram
CSS Stonewall Jackson
CSS Stonewall Jackson
CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cotton-clad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.Stonewall Jackson was selected in January 1862, by Capt. James E. Montgomery to be part of his River Defense Fleet at New Orleans...

side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, burned: Apr 24, 1862
CSS Warrior side-wheel steamer, cotton-clad ram, destroyed: Apr, 1862

Other CS Army cotton-clads:

CSS Grand Duke
CSS Grand Duke
CSS Grand Duke, a steamer built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1859, was outfitted as a cotton-clad gunboat for service with the Confederate States Army in February 1863....

steamer, cotton-clad, burned: 1863
CSS Josiah A. Bell steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department
CSS Queen of the West river steamer, cotton-clad and ironclad ram, exploded: Apr 14, 1863
CSS Uncle Ben steamer, cotton-clad, operated by Texas Marine Department
CSS Webb
CSS Webb
CSS Webb, a 655-ton side-wheel steam ram, was originally built in New York City in 1856 as the civilian steamship William H. Webb. She received a Confederate privateer's commission at New Orleans in May 1861, but was instead employed as a transport until January 1862...

river steamer, cotton-clad ram, transferred to CS Navy early 1865, burned: Apr, 1865

Other CSA boats

CSA Bayou City - CS Army gunboat, side-wheel steamer
CSA General Lee - CS Army transport
CSA John Simonds - CS Army support ship, side-wheel steamer, sunk: Apr 7, 1862
CSA Louisville - CS Army cargo steamer, captured: Jul 13, 1863
CSA Planter - CS Army transport, side-wheel steamer, surrendered: May 13, 1862
CSA Neptune - CS Army tugboat, sank: Jan 1, 1863

Prizes

Alvarado - prize bark, captured: by privateer Jefferson Davis, July 21, 1861
Enchantress - prize schooner, captured: by privateer Jefferson Davis July 6, 1861