For similarly named ships, the southern U.S. commonwealth of Virginia, and other uses, see Virginia (disambiguation).
CSS Virginia. The image is captioned Merrimac; see below.
History
Confederate States
Name
CSS Virginia
Namesake
Virginia
Ordered
July 11, 1861
Completed
March 7, 1862
Commissioned
February 17, 1862
Fate
scuttled May 11, 1862
General characteristics
Type
Casemate ironclad
Displacement
about 4,000 long tons (4,100 t)
Length
275 ft (83.8 m)
Beam
51 ft 2 in (15.6 m)
Draft
21 ft (6.4 m)
Installed power
1,200 ihp (890 kW)
Propulsion
1 shaft
2 Horizontal back-acting steam engines
4 boilers
Speed
5–6 knots (9.3–11.1 km/h; 5.8–6.9 mph)
Complement
about 320 officers and men
Armament
2 × 7-inch (178 mm) Brooke rifles
2 × 6.4-inch (160 mm) Brooke rifles
6 × 9-inch (229 mm) Dahlgren smoothbores
2 × 12-pounder (5 kg) howitzers
Armor
Belt: 1–3 in (25–76 mm)
Deck: 1 in (25 mm)
Casemate: 4 in (102 mm)
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 constructed as a casemate ironclad using the razéed (cut down) original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack. Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads, opposing the Union's USS Monitor in March 1862. The battle is chiefly significant in naval history as the first battle between ironclads.
CSSVirginia 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 Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (rebuilt and renamed as the CSSVirginia) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil...
CSSVirginia II was a Confederate Navy steam-powered ironclad ram laid down in 1862 at the William Graves' shipyard in Richmond, Virginia. Acting Constructor...
ship that CSSVirginia was built upon CSSVirginia II, an ironclad ram. USRC Virginia for ships of the US Revenue Cutter Service USS Virginian USS West...
of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSSVirginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack) to a...
Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSSVirginia. Franklin Buchanan was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 13,...
Confederate States Navy to raise and rebuild her as the broadside ironclad CSSVirginia. Shortly after her famous engagement with the U.S Navy monitor USS Monitor...
The CSS Beaufort (/ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fert) was an iron-hull gunboat that served in North Carolina and Virginia during the American Civil War. Originally...
of the wrecked USS Merrimack to an ironclad that would be named the CSSVirginia and which represented a great advance in Confederate naval capabilities...
CSS Raleigh may refer to: CSS Raleigh (1861) was a gunboat that served as a tender to CSSVirginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads CSS Raleigh (1864)...
Constructor, John L. Porter, based on his earlier work on the ironclad CSSVirginia, retaining the traditional curving ship-type hull, but with flat ends...
tradition of reusing captured ships, the new warship was christened CSSVirginia. She later fought the Union's new ironclad USS Monitor. On the second...
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...
Battle of Hampton Roads on March 8–March 9, 1862, acting as tender to CSSVirginia. She received the thanks of the Congress of the Confederate States for...
and CSS Atlanta, USS Atlanta. Navy Heritage Archived April 7, 2010, at the Library of Congress Web Archives. In both events, as with the CSSVirginia, the...
the broadside of the ironclad CSSVirginia. Two were mounted fore and aft on pivot carriages aboard the ironclad gunboat CSS Neuse. Two others were mounted...
battle between the ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSSVirginia was fought in Hampton Roads. The Virginia was attempting to break the Union blockade that...
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...
Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He assumed command of CSSVirginia during the Battle of Hampton Roads and engaged USS Monitor in the historic...
ironclad CSSVirginia 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...
gleaned from the exploits of such vessels as CSSVirginia herself, CSS Arkansas, CSS Albemarle and CSS Tennessee (1863).[citation needed] In their specific...
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