CSS Tennessee (1863)
USS Tennessee in 1865
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 Confederate States
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| Name: | Tennessee |
| Namesake: | State of Tennessee |
| Builder: | Henry D. Bassett |
| Laid down: | October 1862 |
| Launched: | February 1863 |
| Commissioned: | 16 February 1864 |
| Captured: | At the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864 |
 United States
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| Name: | Tennessee |
| Acquired: | 5 August 1864 |
| Commissioned: | 5 August 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 August 1865 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 27 November 1867 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Casemate ironclad |
| Displacement: | 1,273 long tons (1,293 t) |
| Length: | 209 ft (63.7 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft (14.6 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Installed power: | 4 boilers |
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| Speed: | 5 knots (9.3 km/h; 5.8 mph) |
| Complement: | 133 officers and enlisted men |
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| Service record | |
| Commanders: | Lieutenant James D. Johnston |
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CSS Tennessee was a casemate ironclad ram built for the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. She served as the flagship of Admiral Franklin Buchanan, commander of the Mobile Squadron, after her commissioning. She was captured in 1864 by the Union Navy during the Battle of Mobile Bay and then participated in the Union's subsequent Siege of Fort Morgan. Tennessee was decommissioned after the war and sold in 1867 for scrap.
Tennessee was built at Selma, Alabama, where she was commissioned on February 16, 1864. CSS Baltic towed her to Mobile where she was fitted out.
Tennessee was laid down in October 1862, hull and other woodwork turned out by Henry D. Bassett, who launched her the following February, ready for towing to Mobile to be engined and armed. Her steam plant came from the steamer Alonzo Child. Her casemate design differed materially from CSS Columbia and CSS Texas, but iron plate was the same 2 by 10 in (50 by 250 mm) as used on CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa but triple thickness instead of double; her iron plate was made by the Shelby Iron Company in Shelby, Alabama. A fearsome detail of her defensive armament was a "hot water attachment to her boilers for repelling boarders, throwing one water stream from forward of the casemate and one aft."
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