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Steamboat
Destruction of Commodore Lynch's fleet
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History |
Confederate States |
Name | CSS Sea Bird |
Owner | E. H. Delk |
Builder | Benjamin Terry |
Launched | 1854 at Keyport, New Jersey |
Commissioned | 1861 |
Homeport | Norfolk, Virginia |
Fate | Rammed and sunk by USS Commodore Perry February 10, 1862 |
General characteristics |
Displacement | 202 tons |
Length | 133 ft (41 m) |
Beam | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Depth of hold | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
Decks | 1 deck |
Installed power | 1 low pressure 30" x 84" vertical-beam engine built by Birkbeck, Furnam & Co., NY |
Propulsion | Side wheels. |
Complement | 42 officers and men |
Armament | 1 32-pounder smoothbore cannon, 1 30-pounder rifled cannon |
Notes | No mast, round tuck, no figurehead (Information from enrollment #78; December 26, 1860). |
CSS Sea Bird was a sidewheel steamer in the Confederate States Navy.
Sea Bird was built at
USS Commodore Perry
. Her casualties were two killed, four wounded, and the rest captured.
References
W. Craig Gaines, Encyclopedia of Civil War shipwrecks. Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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Shipwrecks |
- 2 Jan: Northern Light
- 4 Jan: Santi-Pietri
- 9 Jan: USS Meteor, USS Potomac
- 20 Jan: USS Margaret Scott
- 23 Jan: Ocean Chief
- 24 Jan: USS Peri
- 25 Jan: USS New England, USS Stephen Young
- 26 Jan: USS India, USS Timor
- 7 Feb: CSS Curlew
- 8 Feb: CSS Sea Bird
- 10 Feb: CSS Appomattox, CSS Black Warrior, CSS Fanny, CSS Forrest
- 20 Feb: USS Isaac N. Seymour
- 25 Feb: USS R. B. Forbes
- 8 Mar: USS Congress, USS Cumberland
- 9 Mar: CSS George Page
- 10 Mar: USS Whitehall
- March (unknown date): Camilla (or Memphis)
- 4 Apr:
CSS Red Rover
- 7 Apr: CSS Grampus
- 8 Apr: CSS New Orleans
- 14 Apr:
Erebus
- 19 Apr: USS Maria J. Carlton
- 24 Apr:
- 25 Apr: CSS Mississippi, CSRC Pickens, Pioneer, Washington, CSS Pamlico
- 28 Apr: CSS Louisiana, CSS McRae
- April (unknown date): CSS Jackson, CSS Oregon, CSS Carondelet
- 10 May: USS Cincinnati, CSS Germantown, USS Mound City, CSS Fulton
- 11 May: CSS Virginia
- 15 May: CSS Jamestown
- May (unknown date): CSS United States
- 6 Jun:
CSS Little Rebel
- 16 Jun: CSS Maurepas
- 26 Jun: CSS General Earl Van Dorn
- 28 Jun: USS Island Belle
- 15 Jul: Johanna Wagner, USS Sidney C. Jones
- 21 Jul: USS Sallie Wood
- 24 Jul: Lord of the Isles
- 6 Aug: CSS Arkansas
- 14-15 Aug: USS Sumter
- 23 Aug: USS Adirondack
- 24 Aug: USS Henry Andrew, USS Isaac N. Seymour
- 10 Sep: USS Tigress
- 2 Oct: Iona
- 15 Oct: G. L. Brockenborough
- 25 Nov: USS Ellis
- November (unknown date): USS Mingo
- 12 Dec: USS Cairo
- 31 Dec: USS Monitor
- Unknown date: USS Noble
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