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History
Confederate States
Name
Bombshell
Commissioned
April 1864
Decommissioned
May 5, 1864
Fate
Captured by Union Navy
General characteristics
Length
90 ft (27 m)
Draft
3 ft 6 in (1.07 m)
Propulsion
Steam engine
Complement
37 officers and men
Armament
3 howitzers
1 × 20 pounder (9 kg) cannon
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 command of Lieutenant Albert Gallatin Hudgins, CSN. Bombshell was captured at the Battle of Albemarle Sound by USS Mattabesett and USS Sassacus on May 5, 1864 and sent to New York City.
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the nearby forts. On May 5 Albemarle and CSSBombshell, a captured steamer, were escorting the troop-laden CSS Cotton Plant down the Roanoke River; they...
CSS Alabama, 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...
Plymouth in early May 1864, along with the captured steamer CSSBombshell and the transport CSS Cotton Plant. Steaming south toward New Bern, Cooke ran into...
haven on the Roanoke River that afternoon accompanied by steamers CSSBombshell and CSS Cotton Plant to try to wreak more havoc on the blockaders. The Union...
renamed Mary Sorly. Recaptured by USS Sciota trying to run the blockade. CSSBombshell | Confederate States Navy | 5 May 1864 An Erie Canal steamer – was...
Confederate ram CSS Albemarle, in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina In this engagement the ram was defeated, and her tender, the CSSBombshell, captured, and...
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...
USS Sassacus, participated in an engagement with the Confederate ships CSSBombshell and CSS Albemarle in Albemarle Sound on 5 May 1864. Although scalded when...
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CSS Arctic was a Confederate ironclad floating battery converted from USS Arctic at Wilmington, North Carolina in 1862. Confederate forces seized USS...
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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...
CSS Phoenix was a Confederate ironclad floating battery built at Selma, Alabama, from 1863–64. Phoenix was built at the Confederate Naval Works at Selma...
Global Information
Confederate States