Ship's engines and lower portion of the after hull, photographed following recovery in the vicinity of Columbus, Georgia, circa the early or middle 1960s
History
Confederate States
Name
Chattahoochee
Laid down
Saffold, Georgia
In service
February 1863
Fate
Scuttled 17 April 1865, stern raised and put on display in 1963
General characteristics
Length
150 ft (46 m)
Beam
25 ft (7.6 m)
Draft
8 ft (2.4 m)
Speed
12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement
120 officers and crew
Armament
4 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, a 32-pounder rifled cannon and a 9-inch smoothbore cannon
CSS Muscogee and Chattahoochee
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.
70000212[1]
Added to NRHP
May 13, 1970
Reconstruction of CSS Chattahoochee
CSS Chattahoochee was a twin-screw steam powered gunboat built at Saffold, Georgia; she was christened for the river upon which she was built. The gunboat entered Confederate States Navy service in February 1863.
^"Georgia - Muscogee County". National Register of Historic Places. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
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