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...
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the nearby forts. On May 5 Albemarle and CSS Bombshell, a captured steamer, were escorting the troop-laden CSS Cotton Plant down the Roanoke River; they...
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Look up bombshell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bombshell may refer to: Shell (projectile), originally called bombshell Bombshell (slang), a sexually...
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USS Miami (1861) (section Action against CSS Albemarle)
Albemarle and USS Sassacus were both damaged, and the CSS Bombshell (the former USS Bombshell) was captured. Albemarle's threat to Union naval supremacy...
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List of ships of the Confederate States Navy (redirect from CSS Yazoo)
captured: April 7, 1862 CSS Bombshell CSS Cotton Plant CSS Darlington CSS Mars, side-wheel river steamer, captured: April 7, 1862 CSS The Planter, side-wheel...
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H. L. Hunley (redirect from CSS H.L. Hunley)
H. L. Hunley, also known as the Hunley, CSS H. L. Hunley, or CSS Hunley, was a submarine of the Confederate States of America that played a small part...
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CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy. The vessel was built in Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool...
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engagement between Union forces and the Confederate ram CSS Albemarle, accompanied by CSS Bombshell and CSS Cotton Plant, off the mouth of the Roanoke River...
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Southern ram. Albemarle, accompanied by troop-carrying steamers CSS Cotton Plant and CSS Bombshell, reemerged from Roanoke Run on the afternoon of 5 May bent...
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haven on the Roanoke River that afternoon accompanied by steamers CSS Bombshell and CSS Cotton Plant to try to wreak more havoc on the blockaders. The Union...
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Plymouth in early May 1864, along with the captured steamer CSS Bombshell and the transport CSS Cotton Plant. Steaming south toward New Bern, Cooke ran into...
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renamed Mary Sorly. Recaptured by USS Sciota trying to run the blockade. CSS Bombshell | Confederate States Navy | 5 May 1864 An Erie Canal steamer – was...
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USS Sassacus, participated in an engagement with the Confederate ships CSS Bombshell and CSS Albemarle in Albemarle Sound on 5 May 1864. Although scalded when...
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CSS Florida was a sloop-of-war in the service of the Confederate States Navy. She served as a commerce raider during the American Civil War before being...
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CSS Georgia, also known as State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram, was an ironclad warship built in Savannah, Georgia in 1862 during the American Civil War...
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CSS North Carolina was a casemate ironclad built for the Confederate Navy in 1863 during the American Civil War by Berry & Brothers at Wilmington, North...
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CSS Raleigh was a steam-powered Civil War casemate ironclad. She was fitted with a spar torpedo instead of an iron ram and was built in 1863–1864 by the...
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USS Water Witch (1851) (redirect from CSS Water Witch (1851))
the Confederate States Navy, and subsequently was taken into that Navy as CSS Water Witch. Water Witch was launched by the Washington Navy Yard in 1851...
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Confederate ram CSS Albemarle, in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina In this engagement the ram was defeated, and her tender, the CSS Bombshell, captured, and...
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American Civil War. She was sunk in action against the Confederate ironclad ram CSS Albemarle during the Battle of Plymouth (1864). Southfield was built in 1857...
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recovering this invaluable prize that the Confederate ironclad rams CSS Chicora and CSS Palmetto State slipped out of the main ship channel of Charleston...
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Washington County, North Carolina. In a combined operation with the ironclad ram CSS Albemarle, Confederate forces under Maj. Gen. Robert F. Hoke, attacked the...
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CSS Gaines was a wooden side wheel gunboat, weighing 863 tons, constructed by the Confederates at Mobile, Alabama, during 1861–62. The ship was hastily...
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anchored near Fort Monroe, her most conspicuous absence coming in the wake of CSS Virginia's attempt to break the Union blockade early in the spring of 1862...
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Nov: CSS Florida 7 Dec: USS Narcissus 9 Dec: USS Bazely 9 Dec: USS Otsego 12 Dec: CSS Resolute 14 Dec: HMS Bombay 19 Dec: CSS Water Witch 21 Dec: CSS Georgia...
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USS Kingfisher 1 Apr: Maple Leaf 15 Apr: USS Eastport 15 Apr: Emma 18 Apr: Bombshell 19 Apr: USS Southfield 22 Apr: USS Petrel 26 Apr: Homer 30 Apr: Grecian...
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in the battle. She and her sister Manhattan were to keep the ironclad ram CSS Tennessee away from the vulnerable wooden ships while they were passing Fort...
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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. Resolute...
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col C-D, p. 10. Naval History and Heritage Command: Confederate Ships: Bombshell Gaines, p. 115. "Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant Newcastle. No...
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CSS Phoenix was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Selma, Alabama, from 1863 to 1864. Phoenix was built at the Confederate Naval Works at...
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