SS Republic (1853)
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 United States of America
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| Name: | SS Tennessee |
| Launched: | 1853 |
| Captured: | Captured in New Orleans, LA by Confederate States of America |
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 Confederate States of America
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| Name: | CSS Tennessee |
| Captured: | Recaptured by the United States of America in August 1864 |
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 United States
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| Name: | USS Mobile |
| Fate: | Returned to Civilian Service |
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United States of America
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| Name: | SS Republic |
| Fate: | Lost to a hurricane, October 25, 1865 approx. 100 miles (160km) southeast of Savannah, Georgia |
| Status: | Diveable Wreck |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,149 tons |
| Tons burthen: | 1275-ton |
| Length: | 210 ft (64 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 11 in (10.34 m) |
| Installed power: | Single piston steam engine |
| Propulsion: | Two 28-foot steel paddlewheels |
| Capacity: | 100 passengers |
SS Republic was a sidewheel steamship, originally named Tennessee (also named USS Mobile for a time), lost in a hurricane off the coast of Georgia in October 1865, en route to New Orleans.
In 2003, the wreck was located 100 mi (160 km) off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and artifacts are on display in selected museums, along with video stories about passengers and crew members.
The ship was built in Baltimore, Maryland, for the famed War of 1812 Veteran, James Hooper, President of the Baltimore and Southern Steam Packet Company and launched in 1853, as the Tennessee. She began her service as a merchant vessel plying the Baltimore - Charleston route. Not long afterward, she was sent on the first trans-Atlantic crossing by a Baltimore steamship, sailing to Southampton, England, and Le Havre, France. A short time later Tennessee was used to open the first regular passenger steamship service between New York City and Central America.
During the California Gold Rush, the Tennessee transported "49'ers" to the eastern shores of Panama and Nicaragua to travel to California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The Tennessee delivered the last group of "immigrants" volunteering as mercenary soldiers for William Walker in Nicaragua, and, after defeat of Walker's forces, took home hundreds of disconsolate, defeated survivors.
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