CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War; she was...

The CSS Beaufort (/ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fert) was an iron-hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the American Civil War. Originally...

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...

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 Virginia...

ironclad CSS Virginia II, but ran into a hawser and then ran aground. At 07:10 on the morning of January 24, Union fire struck the abandoned tender CSS Drewry...

Constructor, John L. Porter, based on his earlier work on the ironclad CSS Virginia, retaining the traditional curving ship-type hull, but with flat ends...

ironclad warships, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia. The Confederate fleet consisted of the ironclad ram Virginia (built from remnants of the burned steam...

CSS Patrick Henry was a ship built in New York City in 1859 by the renowned William H. Webb for the Old Dominion Steam Ship Line as the civilian steamer...

escaped through Dismal Swamp Canal to Norfolk, Virginia. On March 8–9, 1862, Raleigh was tender to CSS Virginia during the historic Battle of Hampton Roads...

CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King and later El Majidi, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known...

Confederate States Navy to raise and rebuild her as the broadside ironclad CSS Virginia. Shortly after her famous engagement with the U.S Navy monitor USS Monitor...

Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia. Franklin Buchanan was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 13,...

CSS Raleigh may refer to: CSS Raleigh (1861) was a gunboat that served as a tender to CSS Virginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads CSS Raleigh (1864)...

Richmond, Virginia II, Hampton, Drewry, Nansemond, the gunboats CSS Torpedo and CSS Beaufort, and the torpedo boats CSS Hornet, CSS Wasp, and CSS Scorpion...

CSS Columbia was an ironclad steamer ram in the Confederate States Navy and later in the United States Navy. Columbia was built at Charleston, South Carolina...

many casualties. On the second day of the battle, USS Monitor engaged CSS Virginia, allowing tugs to free Minnesota on the morning of 10 March. Minnesota...

Constructor, John L. Porter, based on his earlier work on the ironclad CSS Virginia, retaining the traditional curving ship-type hull, but with flat ends...

ironclad CSS Virginia, he took part in her March–May 1862 actions in the vicinity of Hampton Roads. Subsequently, he served in the gunboats CSS Nansemond...

hull upon which the ironclad warship CSS Virginia was constructed during the American Civil War. The CSS Virginia then took part in the Battle of Hampton...

armored with four inches of railroad iron, similar to the armor used on CSS Virginia II. There were two shuttered gun ports on each of her four casemate sides...

ship that CSS Virginia was built upon CSS Virginia II, an ironclad ram. USRC Virginia for ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service USS Virginian USS West...

exchange in October 1864 and returned to action on the CSS Richmond. William A. Webb grew up in Virginia. He joined the United States Navy at an early age...

appraised by the Union Navy. The keel for CSS Texas was laid down at Rocketts Naval Yard, just outside Richmond, Virginia. She was launched in mid-January 1865...

by the Confederates as they evacuated Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865. The commanders of the CSS Hampton were: Lieutenant George W. Harrison (as of...

Battle of Hampton Roads on March 8–March 9, 1862, acting as tender to CSS Virginia. She received the thanks of the Congress of the Confederate States for...

ordnance and armor tests for the first Confederate ironclad warship, CSS Virginia, which was under construction at the Gosport Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth...

their first ironclad ram CSS Virginia (the rebuilt USS Merrimack) over the wooden-hulled Union blockaders in Hampton Roads, Virginia, signed a contract with...

were burned to prevent their capture. In 1862, Cumberland was sunk by CSS Virginia–herself built on the hull of USS Merrimack captured at Norfolk–during...

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...

the United States Navy. She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia. Cumberland began in the pages of a Congressional Act. Congress passed...