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CSS Georgia (1862)

United Kingdom

Name: Japan

Launched: 1862

Fate: March 1863: Sold to Confederate States Navy

Confederate States

Name: Japan

Acquired: March 1863

Commissioned: 9 April 1863

Renamed: CSS Georgia

Captured: 15 August 1864: by USS Niagara

Fate: Sold

United States

Name: Georgia

In Service: 5 August 1865

Fate: Re-registered in Canada 1870

Characteristics

(as Confederate States Navy steamer)

Type: Screw steamer

Displacement: 600 tons

Length: 212 ft.

Beam: 27 ft.

Depth of Hold: 13 ft. 9 in.

Propulsion: Steam engine and sails

Armament

2 x 100-pounder cannon

2 x 24-pounder cannon

1 x 32-pounder cannon

Battles

Orders read to prey against U.S. shipping wherever found

15 August 1864: Captured by the U.S. Navy

Luraghi, Raimondo. A History of the Confederate Navy. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1996. p 231-232

Stern, Philip Van Doren. The Confederate Navy A Pictorial History. New York: Da Capo Press, 1992. p 34