*CSS GEORGIA
Type: Confederate cruiser
Size: 212 feet long and weighing 700 tons
Engine: steepled geared engine
Top speed: unknown
Armed with: two 100 pound guns
Launched: 1863
Was seized as a prize by the Union cruiser Niagara
*CSS ALBERMARLE
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 152 feet, 3 inches long
Engine: unknown
Top speed: unknown
Launched: unknown
Armed with: two 8 inch guns
Sunk by one torpedo on October 28, 1864
*CSS HL HUNLEY
Type: Confederate submarine
Size: 40 feet long and weighing approx. 2 tons
Engine: hand propelled
Top speed: 2.5 knots
Launched: 1863
Armed with: one spar torpedo
On February 17,1864 she sank the Union ship Housatonic, but was dragged down with her.
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*CSS HUNTSVILLE
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 150 feet long
Engine: unknown
Top speed: 3 knots
Launched: unknown
Armed with: one 6.4 inches and three 32 pound guns
When Mobile fell to Union forces, the Huntsville and the Tuscaloosa were ordered up the Tombigbee River where they were scuttled on April 12, 1864.
*CSS BALTIC
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 185 feet, 4 inches long
Engine: Inclined engines driving 8m diameter paddlewheels
Top speed: 6 knots
Launched: 1860
Armed with: one 42 pound and two 32 pound guns
Captured in 1865 and sold at auction.
*CSS LOUISIANA
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 260 feet long and weighing 1,400 tons
Engine: Twin screws, paddlewheels
Top speed: unknown
Launched: April 1862
Armed with: two 7 inch, four 8 inch, three 9 inch, and seven 32 pound guns
Armor: 4 inch on casement plus wooden backing
When the Union fleet pushed past her to New Orleans, the Louisiana was set on fire by her commander and left to explode down river.
*CSS BERMUDA
Type: Confederate blockade runner
Size: 211 feet long and weighing 1,003 tons
Engine: unknown
Top speed: 8 knots
Launched: 1861
Armed with: unknown
She was captured by a Union gunboat and sold to a Bostonian company and renamed the General Meade.
*CSS McRAE
Type: Confederate gunboat
Size: 830 tons
Engine: compound engine,br>
Top speed: 8 knots
Launched: unknown
Armed with: one 9 inch and six 33 pound guns
She was badly damaged during an attack by the Union fleet. She managed to limp back to New Orleans, but sank there.
*CSS CHICORA
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 150 feet long
Engine: single screw direct acting engine
Top speed: 5 knots
Launched: unknown
Armed with: two 9 inch and two 7 inch guns
Upon the fall of Charleston, she was sank to avoid capture.
*CSS SHENANDOAH
Type: Confederate raider
Size: 230 feet long and weighing 1,160 tons
Engine: single compound engine
Top speed: 9 knots
Launched: 1863
She was initially intended to operate against Union whalers in the Pacific, but ended up sailing right around the globe, making her the only Confederate vessel to carry the Southern flag this far. She survived the war and was sold and later sank during a storm in the Indian Ocean.
*CSS FLAMINGO
Type: Confederate blockade runner
Size: 214 feet long and weighing 500 tons
Engine: diagonal oscillating engines, paddlewheels
Top Speed: 18 knots
Launched: 1864
*CSS SUMTER
Type: Confederate raider
Size: 184 feet long and weighing 449 tons
Engine: unknown
Top speed: 10 knots
Launched: 1859
Armed with: one 8 inch and four 32 pound guns
She captured 18 Union vessels before being forced into Cadiz for repairs in early 1863. She then became the blockade runner Gibraltar.
*CSS FLORIDA
Type: Confederate cruiser
Size: 192 feet long and weighing 700 tons
Engine: reciprocating engine
Top speed: 12 knots
Launched: 1861
Armed with: two 7 inch and six 6 inch guns
She captured a total of over 4 million dollars worth of ships and cargoes. Finally she was siezed in a Brazillian port, taken to the USA and "accidentally" sank by a Union transport in November of 1864.
*CSS TENNESSEE
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 209 feet long and weighing 1,273 tons
Engine: non-condensing engines
Top speed: 7 knots
Launched: February of 1863
Armed with: two 7.1 inch and four 6 inch
Armor: 15.6 inches on sides and 2 inches on deck
She was the largest ironclad built in the Confederacy. She was captured by Union forces on August 5, 1864 after a three hour battle.
*CSS TEXAS
Type: Confederate ironclad
Size: 21 feet long
Engine: horizontal direct- acting engines
Top speed: unknown
Launched: January of 1865
Armed with: six 6.4 inches
Armor: 4 inches on battery
The last major warship launched by the Confederacy. When Richmond fell to Union forces on April 3, 1865, the Confederates failed to blow up the Texas and she was siezed by the Union and moved to Norfolk Navy Yard.
