CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground at Fort Forrest (35°53′08″N75°45′41″W / 35.88565°N 75.76131°W / 35.88565; -75.76131) and burned in the battle for Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862. Its wreck was discovered in 1988 and archaeologically investigated in 1994.
CSSCurlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground at Fort Forrest...
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...
CSS Manassas, formerly the steam icebreaker Enoch Train, was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New...
CSS Arkansas was the lead ship of her class of two casemate ironclads built for the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. Completed in...
CSSCurlewCSS Ellis CSS Fanny CSS George Page CSS Governor Moore CSS Grampus, stern-wheel river steamer, scuttled: April 7, 1862 CSS Grand Duke CSS Ida...
The second Navy Ensign of the ironclad CSS Atlanta The 9-star first Naval ensign of the paddle steamer CSSCurlew The 11-star ensign of the Confederate...
CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Stonewall Jackson was selected in January...
1 October 1861. This squadron consisted of the CSSCurlew, CSS Raleigh, and CSS Junaluska. The Curlew closed first while the other two gunboats circled...
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...
commanded by Flag Officer William F. Lynch, along with the gunboats CSS Raleigh and CSSCurlew, Junaluska participated in a naval expedition against the gunboat...
he sent Commander Thomas T. Hunter, former captain of CSSCurlew, to Norfolk. He later sent CSS Raleigh up the Dismal Swamp Canal for the same purpose...
Jan: USS India, USS Timor 7 Feb: CSSCurlew 8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird 10 Feb: CSS Appomattox, CSS Black Warrior, CSS Fanny, CSS Forrest 20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour...
surviving Civil War-era ironclads in existence: USS Monitor, CSS Neuse, USS Cairo, and CSS Muscogee. Images of USS Cairo USS Cairo in her final resting...
salvage what guns and ammunition she could from the partially sunk gunboat Curlew. That evening the squadron retreated to Elizabeth City to obtain more ammunition...
CSS Mississippi was a projected ironclad warship of the Confederate States Navy, intended to be used on the Mississippi River in the vicinity of New Orleans...
other side of the sound, was rendered completely useless when gunboat CSSCurlew, holed at the waterline, ran ashore directly in front in her effort to...
Navy 7 June 2006 Sunk as a target, along with her sister ship, Stump. CSSCurlew Confederate States Navy 7 February 1862 Sunk in battle off Roanoke Island...
CSS Ellis (later USS Ellis) was a gunboat in the Confederate States Navy and the United States Navy during the American Civil War. It was lost during...
CSS General Beauregard was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Built in Algiers, Louisiana in 1847 as a...
CSS General Earl Van Dorn was a cottonclad warship used by the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. General Earl Van Dorn was...
CSS Louisiana was a casemate ironclad of the Confederate States Navy built to aid in defending the lower Mississippi River from invasion by the Union...
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