CSS/USS Atlanta
A sepia wash drawing of CSS Atlanta
by R. G. Skerrett
History
Namesake: Fingal
Owner: Hutchinson's West Highland Service
Builder: J & G Thomson
Launched: 9 May 1861
Fate: Sold to the Confederacy, 1861
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Characteristics
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Tonnage: about 700 tons
Length: 189 ft.
Beam: 25 ft.
Depth of Hold: 15 ft.
Propulsion: 1 Shaft - 2 direct-acting steam engines
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Confederate States
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Builder: Asa and Nelson Tift
Acquired: September 1861
Commissioned: 22 November 1861
Decommissioned: 21 June 1865
Captured: 17 June 1863 - transferred to U.S. Navy in February 1864
Fate: Sold to Haiti, 4 May 1869, Lost at sea, December 1869
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General Characteristics
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Type: Casemate Ironclad
Displacement: 1,022 tons
Length: 204 ft.
Beam: 41 ft.
Draft: 15 ft. 9 in.
Depth of Hold: 17 ft.
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Armament
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2 x 7-inch Brooke rifles
2 x 6,4 Brooke rifles
1 x Spar torpedo
Naval ram
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After capture, re-outfitted with
2 x 8-inch guns
2 x 150-pound Parrott rifles
2 x 100-pound Parrott rifles
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Battles
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Squadron Flagship at Port Royal
17 June - Captured by the USS Weehawken
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron
Spent most of her time on the James River supporting operations against Richmond
Battle of Trent's Reach
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Current, Richard N., ed. "Atlanta." Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. p 116
Luraghi, Riimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Press Institute, 1996. p 211-216
Stern, Philip Van Doren. The Confederate Navy A Pictorial History. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. p 38, 138-139
USS Atlanta. 4 January 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/org/wiki/USS_Atlanta_(1861)
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