CSS Albemarle
A Drawing of CSS Albemarle
Namesake: Albemarle Sound
Ordered: 16 April 1862
Laid Down: January 1863
Commissioned: 17 April 1864
Fate: 27 October 1864 - sunk by spar torpedo, captured, raised and sold
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Characteristics
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Displacement: 376 tons
Length: 158 ft.
Beam: 35 ft. 5 in.
Draught: 9 ft.
Propulsion: 2 Steam engines,
twin 3-bladed screw propellors
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Armament
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2 6.4 Brooke double-banded rifled cannon
(similar to a Parrott rifle)
Projectiles consisted of explosive shells, anti-personnel canister shot, grapeshot, and blunt-nosed, solid wrought iron bolts
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Battles
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Sunk USS Southfield
Battled with USS Miami
Battle of Albemarle Sound
Successfully dominated the Roanoke River and approached to Plymouth, NC
Sunk on a raid by Lieut. Cushing's commando raid
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and Leaders of the Civil War Grant-Lee Edition Vol. V Part IV.. New York: The Century Co, 1884-1887. rpt. National
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